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The Wives of Henry Oades
Johanna Moran
A NOVEL
For my husband, John Moran And for my parents, June Ray and John Campbell Chommie
Tena, ki te riro ko ta te teina ki mua whanau mai ai, hei muri ko ta te tuakana whanau ai, na, he iwi kino taua iwi hou, ina tae mai ki tenei Motu.
But, if it happens that the child of the younger is born first, and of the elder afterward, then the newcomers will be an evil people, when they arrive in this Land.
—A Maori premonition of disorder
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Part One
The Newcomers 1890
Kindness Itself
Wellington February, 1891
Wellington March, 1892
Taken
Inconceivable
Alone
She Speaks to Me Day and Night
No Worse than Here
A Deal
Berkeley
A Proposal
Nancy
Together Always
The Main Concern
Part Two
North Island 1895
North Island 1897
North Island Late 1898
Wellington
Wellington Hospital
March 1899
Hello, Henry
Part Three
A Fly in the Amber
A Start
Calling the Same Man Husband
Beginning Today
There Was an Old Woman
A Trip to the Quack
At the Palace Hotel
Pieces
Dickering
A Question of Divorce
All She Knew for Certain
A Christmas Duck
A True Wife
Elsewhere
Something Demonic
Hello, Little Bastard
The Party Most Principally Injured
The Wives of Henry Oades
A Queer Life
At Home
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
