The Gladstone Colony An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History
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But the contrast between hope and disappointment was certainly unusually conspicuous in the present case. The expectations of those who started in the ill-fated rush were wildly higL The failure of those hopes was absolute and complete. Mr Sinnett strongly suspects that most of the 300 who returned -with him were mingling, with calculations of what they had lost, self-reproaches for their folly in having come, and the scarcely less annoying anticipations of the ridiculous figure they would cut ...as prodigals returning amid the merriment of their good-natured friends. This latter feeling seemed indeed to predominate in a good many of those with whom he got into conversation upon the subject of the rush. A young gentleman, whose friends resided in Melbourne, contemplated passing through that city with his hat drawn over his eyes, without stopping, and first notifying his return from Port Curtis in a letter dated from the Ovens, or Indigo Creek. " I hope we shan't get into Melbourne by daylight," another man said to me ; "I know I shall feel the same as if I'd stole something.
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