The Friends--The Knapsacks--The Queen's Wharf--The Northern Railway--Belle Ewart--The _Susan Thomas_, Captain and Crew--Musical Performance--The Sly Dog--Misunderstanding--Kempenfeldt Bay. Eugene Coristine and Farquhar Wilkinson were youngish bachelors and fellow members of the Victoria and Albert Literary Society. Thither, on Wednesday evenings, when respectable church-members were wending their way to weekly service, they hastened regularly, to meet with a band of like-minded young men, and spend a literary hour or two. In various degrees of fluency they debated the questions of the day; they read essays with a wide range of style and topic; they gave readings from popular authors, and co…
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