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Romantic tragedy set around a NSW country station. Madge, calm pretty and the only daughter on the station becomes engaged to a 'colonial experience' Englishman. He is attracted to a neighbouring visitor and the engagement is broken off at a local ball. He marries the other woman but she dies; he loses his station and his daughter is all to him. Madge is increasingly valued for her nurturing nursing - and finally dies after rescuing her former lover's blight-blinded daughter from a bushfire. Calm woman's self-sacrifice, true mettle etc. (It is the death of her! But all for him.) Light. Some interest in characterisation of the gossiping Mr Bennie. (PB)
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