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After all he was a man, and there are limits to what manhood will permit of one. But those words of his sank deeply into her soul. They rang again and again in her ears as she took her anguished way home after the agony of their farewells, and in the end they drove her out again that very night to seek the Governor of Zeeland.
He drank with a friend on his way to the House, and with another in the Capitol buildings before taking his seat for business. He drank at lunch and at dinner, and he drank more freely at party or levee in the evening. Only in the early morning was he free from the bewildering effects of liquor. Four years of such a life broke down his manhood.
Shall I become a byword among the people, as false to the memory of my true lord? Yet how can I face the reproaches of my son, who since he is come to manhood grows more impatient day by day, seeing the waste of his wealth, of which I am the cause? "But I wished to ask thee concerning a dream which I had last night.
All manners and customs would seem exaggerated, sentimental, and he himself would give the impression of being a monster without breeding or a single attribute becoming to proper manhood.
But for you, unhappy wretches, after they have robbed you of worldly goods, and even manhood itself, are provided prisons and pauper homes! And for your children," a dark shadow swept over the stranger's face, and a shudder went through his frame.
Tenderly loved and gently nurtured by her parents, it was at that period in her life in which their presence and guardianship were most seriously needed, that she became an orphan; and her future charge necessarily devolved upon an uncle, between whom and her father, since their early manhood, but little association of any kind had taken place.
Up stood then with shield the sturdy champion, stayed by the strength of his single manhood, and hardy 'neath helmet his harness bore under cleft of the cliffs: no coward's path! Soon spied by the wall that warrior chief, survivor of many a victory-field where foemen fought with furious clashings, an arch of stone; and within, a stream that broke from the barrow.
Patriarchs of eighty years and callow schoolboys of sixteen fought side by side with the fine flower and the lusty prime of Boer manhood, and many had their wives and children with them under the Transvaal colours, and not a few had brought their mothers. When an officer had any order to give his men, he prefaced it with the Boer equivalent for "Hi!"
"No, not quite that except, perhaps, to help you a little with Jacqueline. Mr. Jefferson was the best friend a poor boy ever had." Rand winced. "You say true. The best friend a boy could have. Give me another glass of wine, and then I'll go." "A man like that during youth and a woman like Jacqueline for your manhood you have had much to prop your life." "Yes. Very much."
But the vehement and awful passion which belongs to manhood when thoroughly unmanned this was the first time in which the relief of that stormy bitterness was known to him! "Musing full sadly in his sullen mind." "There forth issued from under the altar-smoke A dreadful fiend." Ibid. on Superstition.
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