Excerpt from Nulma There was a good deal of speculation rife about Lady Arthur. In those days volumes of Burke and Debrett were not plentiful in Leichardt's Land, for social exigencies did not often require the consultation of a table of pre cedence; but in time it became duly established that, oddly enough, she also was a foreigner; presumably, however, nobody of distinction, for she was set down simply as Marguerite, daughter of one Charles Mallalieu - without even a 'de' of Brussels. Then it was whispered that she was a little older than her husband, and that she, like the brilliant Lady Randal, was very handsome and very charm ing, so that though the elder ladies of Leich ardt's Town, most of whom were of English extraction, frowned, the young married women and the girls plucked up heart, for they now felt pretty certain that there would be good times at Government House after all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.