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While waiting to see what this would bring forth , he paid a visit to John Turnham . It had not been part of his scheme to trouble his new relatives on this occasion ; he bore them a grudge for the way they had met Polly 's overture . But he was at his wits ' end how to kill time : chafing at the delay was his main employment , if he were not worrying over the thought of having to appear before old Ocock without his son . So , one midday he called at Turnham 's place of business in Flinders Lane , and was affably received by John , who carried him off to lunch at the Melbourne Club . Turnham was a warm partisan of the diggers ' cause . He had addressed a mass meeting held in Melbourne , soon after the fight on the Eureka ; and he now roundly condemned the government 's policy of repression . `` I am , as you are aware , my dear Mahony , no sentimentalist .