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"You shame me by a delicacy which I can only respect and admire in you. I cannot imitate it; it is beyond me." "I owe you an apology," he answered. "I should have spoken plainly. It was your feelings your heart, not your conduct, that I suspected. You have never pretended to love me-to be in love with me, and your Tenor was a younger man, and more attractive."
But to return. War is war, George, and should be entered into with caution." "Yes; you are right. I feel at times as though I could not fight against the flag of my country; and then, on the other hand, I would not fight against my home and kindred. There seems but one alternative left to me-to resign my commission in the army and not take up arms at all," replied the young officer sadly.
From my tent I overheard the following conversation between Memba Sasa and the cook: "The grass is high," said the cook. "Are you not afraid to go after a wounded lion with only one white man?" "My one white man is enough," replied Memba Sasa. It is a quality of courage that I must confess would be quite beyond me-to depend entirely on the other fellow, and not at all on myself.
The mine-boss tightened his arm round the girl's waist. "That's what I missed, through him and you, Jenny," he said. "What was you doing here, and not at Selby, Jake?" she asked. "They sent for me-to stop the trouble here." "But what about our wedding to-day?" she asked with a frown. "A man went from here with a letter to you three days ago," he said, "asking you to come down here and be married.
How the matter stood she either did not know or did not like to tell me-to the last; but the mysterious disease which ate away her strength, I in my private mind ascribe to anxiety from this affair and her sudden and strange responsibility as trustee for ladies.
"Who" inquired he, "could have done this unmanly deed?" "The wretch from whom you rescued me-to prevent my escape from a captivity worse than death." While she spoke, he wrenched open the manacles from her wrists and ankles, and threw them over the precipice.
The mine-boss tightened his arm round the girl's waist. "That's what I missed, through him and you, Jenny," he said. "What was you doing here, and not at Selby, Jake?" she asked. "They sent for me-to stop the trouble here." "But what about our wedding to-day?" she asked with a frown. "A man went from here with a letter to you three days ago," he said, "asking you to come down here and be married.
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