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Female | 20s | Under 3 minutes
Starts on page 14
EXTRACT: Oh unhappy Marian! Is there more danger to be apprehended from Frederick Seymour than from a host of bushrangers? My father judges harshly, the very name of Seymour is sufficient to call forth all his latent feelings - it was Seymour's brother that almost ruined him, but he little thinks my happiness is staked - he little thinks what I suffer when submissively I bear his violent bursts of passion - when I hear Frederick Seymour called gay and profligate, it chills my very heart...
Male | Age unspecified | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 21
EXTRACT: Hallo, here's a pocket book, I never saw this before, [Opens it, and fumbles over it.]why, the rascal, I always thought there was honor among thieves, but now I am convinced there is no honor no where - Fawkes never shewed me this pocket book - here's money - notes too - twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty - a bill of 60 - another of 40 pounds; - oh, the rascal, this is the first I ever heard of it - but I will match him -
Male | Age unspecified | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 35
EXTRACT: All my exertions are useless - I cannot discover the least trace of my daughter! I have examined every hill and dale in the neighbourhood - my men are yet on the search, oh! gracious Heaven, may they be more successful. The whole country is alarmed, but what matters, my daughter's ruin is accomplished - her bleeding corpse, perhaps, will be all that her agonised father will again see of her.