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Following the line of his outstretched hand, Benita and her father perceived, not more than a hundred yards away from them, a great troop of wilderbeeste, or gnu, travelling along a ridge, and pausing now and again to indulge in those extraordinary gambols which cause the Boers to declare that these brutes have a worm in their brains. "Give me my rifle, Hans," said Mr. Clifford. "We want meat."
We asked him if the story he had told to Jackson were true, and he answered that, surely as the sun shone in the heavens, it was true every word of it for it, and much more than he had spoken of, had been handed down from father to son, and that they even knew the name of the white lady who had killed herself. It was Ferreira your mother's name, Benita, though a common one enough in South Africa.
I shall not follow the example of Benita da Ferreira unless I am driven to it; I want to look, that is all. One can see far from that place, if there is anything to see. Perhaps the Matabele are gone now, we have heard nothing of them lately." So they dressed themselves, and as soon as the light was sufficiently strong, came out of the hut and parted, Mr.
Yes, yes, the spirit of her who was Benita da Ferreira must haunt this place in solitude. This is her doom, to be the guardian of that accursed gold which was wrung from the earth by cruelty and paid for with the lives of men." "Is it still safe?" whispered Jacob. "I will look;" then after a pause, "I have looked.
She sat up straight and turned her head away from the houses with their trim orderly dooryards and well-kept hedges, and, for a moment, fixed her mind with passionate loyalty on the lonely wind-swept stretches of her native state; the battered and weatherbeaten ranch-house, Benita But only for a moment.
"Surely you do not speak the truth to me, and you hope that never more will you see the sun set upon Bambatse." Now understanding that it was hopeless to deceive him, Benita exclaimed boldly: "It is so; but oh! my Father, stay us not, for fear is behind us, and therefore we fly hence." "And is there no fear before you, maiden?
I had something of my own, but also I had debts, and at the present moment a draft in my pocket for £2,163 14s. 5d., and a little loose cash, represents the total of my worldly goods, just about the sum I have been accustomed to spend per annum." "I don't call that ruin, I call that riches," said Benita, relieved. "With £2,000 to begin on you may make a fortune in Africa.
What it was Benita did not trouble to inquire, but she gathered that it had something to do with the measuring out of the chapel cave into squares for the more systematic investigation of each area.
It was something about dividing land; Benita knew not what it was. "But this Benita did know, that they were all great people, and rich, and very liberal; so that when they offered to take her, to attend to the children, and to speak the language for them, and to comfort the lady, she was only too glad to go, little foreseeing the end of it.
"What's all that?" he asked, pointing to the hide sacks, while they waited for the two scared Kaffirs to join them. "Oh!" she answered indifferently, "gold, I believe. Look, there is some of it on the floor, over Benita da Ferreira's footsteps." "Gold! Why, it must be worth ! And who on earth is Benita da Ferreira?" "I will tell you afterwards.
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