Tomorrow
Harry the wanderer
Contrast home and the open world.
Harry is the very image of his father, and he knows the family's past. Bessie is convinced that he is the real son.
He tells her why he ran away. His parents nagged and beat him, and wanted to make him a lawyer's clerk. He feels he was born to them by mistake.
Since then he has lived a wandering life: he has been a sailor, a boundary rider, a sheep-shearer, a whaler, a gold prospector and much more. The whole world is his home.
He has come only to ask his father for five pounds, after spending all his money on a spree in London. He hates being shut in anywhere.
He sings a song about the Gambusinos: restless prospectors who find gold and then throw it away, and whom no woman could hold for more than a week. Harry thinks he is one of them. And he begins to flirt with Bessie.
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