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Updated: June 28, 2025
One evening, when they were walking together by the lake, watching the long lights of sunset break and quiver upon its surface, Benita's curiosity overcame her, and she asked him boldly how it happened that such a man as he was content to live the life he did. "In order that I may reach a better," he answered.
Along the banks of the stream and round the borders of the lake the pig-lilies bloomed, a sheet of white. All the place was beautiful and full of life and hope. Nothing seemed dead and hopeless except Benita's heart. Her health had quite come back to her; indeed, never before had she felt so strong and well. But the very soul had withered in her breast.
"He tink much about people when he want to tink about them, but he tink most about himself. Baas Meyer, he a very clever man oh! a very clever man, who want to be a great man too. And one day, Missee, he be a great man, great and rich if the Heer God Almighty let him." Six weeks had gone by since the eventful evening of Benita's arrival at Rooi Krantz.
Although the shock of the blow she had received upon her head was sufficient to make her insensible for so many hours, Benita's injuries were not of a really serious nature, for as it happened the falling block, or whatever it may have been, had hit her forehead slantwise, and not full, to which accident she owed it that, although the skin was torn and the scalp bruised, her skull had escaped fracture.
The Doones if Doones indeed they were, about which you of course know best took every stiver out of the carriage: wet or dry they took it. And Benita could never get her wages: for the whole affair is in Chancery, and they have appointed a receiver." "Whew!" said I, knowing something of London, and sorry for Benita's chance.
Understanding what this meant to them, Benita's nerve gave out at last, and she burst into weeping. "Don't cry, love," he said. "God's will be done. Perhaps they have given up the hunt by now; at any rate, my legs are left, and Bambatse is not more than sixteen miles away.
To a passing steamer bound for Port Elizabeth, however, she had reported the terrible disaster, which by now was known all over the world, together with the names of those whom she had picked up in the boats. On the night of the day of Benita's interview with Mrs. Jeffreys, the Castle arrived off Durban and anchored, since she was too big a vessel to cross the bar as it was in those days.
The Doones if Doones indeed they were, about which you of course know best took every stiver out of the carriage: wet or dry they took it. And Benita could never get her wages: for the whole affair is in Chancery, and they have appointed a receiver. 'Whew! said I, knowing something of London, and sorry for Benita's chance.
"'So it always seems to be, were all the words the mother answered; and then she fell on Benita's neck; and the men were ashamed to be near her weeping; and a sailor lay down and bellowed. Surely these men are the best. "Before the light of the morning came along the tide to Watchett my Lady had met her husband.
Before they went, however, at Benita's prayer, her father devoted a few seconds to unbuckling the girths and pulling off the bridle, so that it might have a chance of life. For a little way it hobbled after them on three legs, then, the saddle still upon its back, stood whinnying piteously, till at last, to Benita's intense relief, a turn in their path hid it from their sight.
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