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The receiving overseer, Roger Kendall, though thin and clerical, was a rather capable man, as prison officials go shrewd, not particularly well educated, not over-intelligent naturally, not over-industrious, but sufficiently energetic to hold his position. He knew something about convicts considerable for he had been dealing with them for nearly twenty-six years.
In those early days, long before the great labor-saving machines came to our help, almost everything connected with wheat-raising abounded in trying work, cradling in the long, sweaty dog-days, raking and binding, stacking, thrashing, and it often seemed to me that our fierce, over-industrious way of getting the grain from the ground was too closely connected with grave-digging.
All in all, Capetown gives you the idea of being neither very rich nor very poor, neither over-industrious nor over-lazy, decently successful, reasonably happy, whole-heartedly easy-going. The public buildings what I saw of them confirm the idea of a placid half-prosperity. The place is not a baby, but it has hardly taken the trouble to grow up.
Valentina Mihailovna was the daughter of a general who had been neither over-wise nor over-industrious in his life. He had received only one star and a buckle as a reward for fifty years' service. She was a Little Russian, intriguing and sly, endowed, like many of her countrywomen, with a very simple and even stupid exterior, from which she knew how to extract the maximum of advantage.
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