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Chikumbula, a hospitable old headman, under Nchomokela, the paramount chief of a large district, whom we did not see, brought us next morning a great basket of meal, and four fowls, with some beer, and a cake of salt, "to make it taste good." Chikumbula said that the elephants plagued them, by eating up the cotton- plants; but his people seem to be well off.
In payment you marry Milly's niece." His manner was so passionately earnest that the astonished boy took his head in his hands to consider this amazing proposition. "But how in heaven's name can I study if I'm plagued with a wife?" he demanded. "I want to be foot-loose!" "All right. You shall be foot-loose, for seven years, let's say," said his uncle, quietly.
But then, if she saw she had pleased you too much, the little witch was never easy till she had plagued you again. She did right to plague them; but Me! Poor boy that I was, why should I seem more disinterested than others; how should she perceive all that lay hid in my young deep heart?
And now, our water being gone, we began to be plagued with thirst and a great host of flies so bold as to settle on our mouths, nostrils and eyes, so that we must be for ever slapping and brushing them away.
They protested the contrary, declaring that they were in favour of girls receiving as complete an education as possible. She was well aware of this; however, she liked to tease them in return for the manner in which they themselves plagued her. "But do you know," said she, "you are a great deal behind the times?
Where, then, after chasing these fleeting hopes of ours from point to point of the political horizon, are they at last really found? Not where, under Providence, the hopes of Englishmen used to be placed, in our own courage and in our own virtues, but in the moderation and virtue of the most atrocious monsters that have ever disgraced and plagued mankind.
Indeed, I now recollect there was a woman in a dress of a shepherdess; and there was another aukward thing in a blue domino that plagued me a little, but I soon got rid of them." "And I suppose you do not know the lady in the blue domino neither?" "Not I, I assure you," said James. "But pray, why do you ask me these questions? it looks so like jealousy." "Jealousy!" cries she; "I jealous! no, Mr.
The fellow's presence was unwelcome, to say the least of it; and though for want of better company I had sometimes encouraged him to be free with me at home, I took that to be no reason why I should be plagued with him before gentlemen. I shook him off, therefore, hoping by a frown to silence him. He was not to be so easily put down, however, and perforce I had to speak to him.
Meantime the Republic was plagued by the rinderpest scourge, which wrought untold havoc throughout the country. It was succeeded by a smallpox epidemic, which, in spite of medical efforts, grew from sporadic to epidemic and visited all classes of the Rand, exacting victims wherever it travelled.
God would know when and how to touch her. Till the evening of the following day Jeanne thought of nothing but the month of Mary. She plagued her mother with questions; she dreamt of the church adorned with a profusion of white roses, filled with thousands of wax tapers, with the sound of angels' voices, and sweet perfumes.
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