MICHAELSPAPPY

 They moved forward and reached a point where the scrub and grass came to an end and the path descended a steep bank to traverse a region of...

      There was another silence broken unexpectedly by Geoffrey Gaunt. "In fact, Dr. Ackrington," said Gaunt, "you think we h...

 The war had brought them closer together. The Colonel commanded the local Home Guard and considered that he owed his life to his pakeha fri...

      "For pity's sake, my dear Dikon, drive a little away from the edge of the abyss. Can this mountain goat track possibly be a m...

      "If it is of any interest, you may as well know you have seen it at its worst. Smith is not always drunk and Questing is not alwa...

 Its beauty was perfectly articulate yet utterly remote. Against his will he was moved by it as an unmusical listener may be profoundly dist...

 White men move across the surface of New Zealand, but the Maori people are of its essence, tranquil or disturbed as the trees and lakes mus...

  THOUGHTS ON RACE AND MARRIAGE                 From time to time the subject of race and marriage will come up, and occasionally I will...

 Nobody noticed Barbara's physical assets; her defects were inescapable. Her hair, her clothes, her incoherent gestures, her strangely u...

      With most of this inheritance they had built the boarding house they now lived in. The remaining sums had been quietly lost in a serie...

    The servant brought the drink. Dr. Ackrington accused him of having substituted an inferior brand of whisky for the one ordered, but he ...

 I conceived it my duty to report this matter to the local police authorities, who displayed a somnolence so profound as to be pathological....

     "There is no reason why I should not keep an eye on your man and I shall do so if you and he wish it. What you say of him modifies...

      Claire is an army man and it's a pity he has failed so signally to absorb in the smallest degree the principles of system and orde...

 When Dr. James Ackrington limped into the Harpoon Club on the afternoon of Monday, January the thirteenth, he was in a poisonous temper. A ...

 The very vagueness of Mr. Wilkie's answer made Wilson believe him. It was the answer of a man who had allowed himself to fall into a la...

       "I have seen many types of people and there is one thing I have observed about your great country, Mr. Hitchings. You do not tre...

      "I have an idea that you saved me a good deal of trouble by taking me home," he said. "I'm grateful to you for that...

      "You are fortunate that you don't resemble the Hitchinges. You don't resemble us at all."     She leaned toward him ...

      "You have been so anxious to buy me out that I wonder if you have not some other reason. Bankers so seldom tell the real truth.  ...