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"I don't think that Jantje likes you, Meinheer Muller," said Bessie, spitefully, "and I do not wonder at it if you talk to him like that. He told me the other day that he had known you for twenty years," and she looked at him inquiringly. This casual remark produced a strange effect on her visitor, who turned colour beneath his tanned skin.
"It could not well have been closer, Meinheer. I hope that, for your own sake and for the sake of the people who go out shooting with you, you will not make such a mistake again. Good-morning!"
It would have been natural that Meinheer Pavillon should now have sallied from his fastness, but either in reverent care of those whom he had taken under his protection, or perhaps for the better assurance of his own safety, he contented himself with dispatching messenger on messenger, to command his lieutenant, Peterkin Geislaer, to attend him directly.
"How are you, Captain?" he said in English, for he could talk English well, "and how do you like the Transvaal? must not call it South African Republic now, you know, for that's treason," and his eye twinkled merrily. "I like it very much, Meinheer," said John. And you must find yourself very snug at Oom Croft's there; it's the nicest place in the district, with the ostriches and all.
"Admirably spoken," said Quentin, "only be bold, and take this gentleman's good counsel, noble Meinheer Pavillon, and, at no trouble to yourself, you will do the most worthy action since the days of Charlemagne. Noble Sir," he added, addressing Pavillon, "set forward." "Hold hold hold a minute," said Pavillon, "my mind misgives me!
"How do you do, Meinheer Botha?" I said to him in Dutch. The man looked at me, looked again, then, startled out of his Dutch stolidity, cried to his wife, who was seated on the box of the waggon "Come here, Frau, come. Here is Allan Quatermain, the Englishman, the son of the 'Predicant. How goes it, Heer Quatermain, and what is the news down in the Cape yonder?"
After they had ridden off, Van Duyk went out to the haystack. “They have gone for the present, meinheer, but you had better stay where you are. They are quite capable of coming back again in the hope that you may have come out from some hiding-place they may have overlooked.” Indeed, an hour later the troop galloped up again, only to find the Dutchman smoking placidly on a seat before his house.
Will you consent to marry her after my fashion? if so, I will marry you directly. "`I will, replied my father. "`Then take her by the hand. Now, Meinheer, swear. "`I swear, repeated my father. "`By all the spirits of the Hartz mountains "`Nay, why not by Heaven? interrupted my father.
"`Even so, Meinheer, replied the hunter. `I was a serf to the noble house of ; my master would insist upon my surrendering up my fair girl to his wishes: it ended in my giving him a few inches of my hunting-knife. "`We are countrymen, and brothers in misfortune, replied my father, taking the huntsman's hand, and pressing it warmly. "`Indeed! Are you then from that country?
And then to save herself from a second undignified surrender she had to capitulate quickly, and add, "At least, not before next week." Then she raised her eyes, shining with happiness, to his. "Meinheer van Hert, if my memory serves me rightly, you have not yet asked me the most important question of all."
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