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Robbery Under Arms

CHAPTER 5
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It's a pity he ever took to this kind of life.' Father said this with a kind of real sorrow that made me look at him to see if the grog had got into his head; just as if his life, mine, and Jim's didn't matter a straw compared to this man's, whoever he was, that had had so many better chances than we had and had chucked 'em all away.
But it's a strange thing that I don't think there's any place in the world where men feel a more real out-and-out respect for a gentleman than in Australia.

Everybody's supposed to be free and equal now; of course, they couldn't be in the convict days.

But somehow a man that's born and bred a gentleman will always be different from other men to the end of the world.

What's the most surprising part of it is that men like father, who have hated the breed and suffered by them, too, can't help having a curious liking and admiration for them.

They'll follow them like dogs, fight for them, shed their blood, and die for them; must be some sort of a natural feeling.


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