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In the Australian bush a minister finds and adopts a lost motherless girl of 16. He educates her in the city to be a teacher and she returns as governess to his neighbour's children. On her return she discovers not only her love for him but her father, a weak thief whom the minister has redeemed ... Warmly sentimental. Child-like girl-love for guardian. NB Her name is Gift - her mother's gift to her father, and a gift to the minister. Freud/Levi-Strauss, etc. (PB)
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