Mr. Armfield sees the house at No. 1 Cloud Street, Perth, as a metaphor for the nation itself, occupied as it is by the wild, shiftless Pickles family, the industrious, God-fearing Lambs and the ghosts of an Aboriginal girl and the cruel missionary who drove her to suicide.
RICK SANTORUM, a former senator from Pennsylvania, is a virtuous man: intelligent, industrious and God-fearing, the proud father of six children, whom he and his wife have schooled at home.
For girls they offer a "Father Daughter Retreat" (noted for its creepiness), in which fathers "lead," "woo" and "win" their daughters to become "industrious, family-affirming, children-loving, women of God".
There God is compared to the careful and industrious cultivator of a vineyard Israel who, angry at the "wild grapes" of injustice and violence that is his crop, threatens to take away his care and protection.
Well, I love life, so I'd better get working, especially since "God helps them that help themselves," "Diligence is the Mother of Good luck," and "If we are industrious we shall never starve".
They are industrious people.
Mr. Stevens is industrious.
"But they were industrious.
Scotland the industrious.
Industrious, persevering, sexless.
