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The latter portion of Colley's remarks will be echoed by our own audiences, which are so often doomed to see the most delicate of plays acted in barns of theatres where all the sensitive effects of dialogue and action are swallowed up in the immensity of stage and auditorium.
From the look on her face she was whetting her tongue. But before she could speak, Nick and Colley, dressed as a farmer boy and girl, with a garland of house-grown flowers about them, came down the stage from the arras, hand in hand, bowing. The audience-chamber grew very still this was something new. Nick felt a swallowing in his throat, and Colley's hand winced in his grip.
A great big colley came up, wagging his tail slowly, and thrust his nose into Kitty's hand. "Dear old Watch, how sweet you are!" said the girl. She bent down, flinging her arms round the colley's neck, and pressed a kiss on a white star on his forehead. Just then Sir John's voice was heard calling them.
The Queen's Speech President Brand and Lord Kimberley Sir Henry de Villiers Sir George Colley's plan Paul Kruger's offer Sir George Colley's remonstrance Complimentary telegrams Effect of Majuba on the Boers and English Government Collapse of the Government Reasons of the Surrender Professional sentimentalists The Transvaal Independence Committee Conclusion of the armistice The preliminary peace Reception of the news in Natal Newcastle after the declaration of peace Exodus of the loyal inhabitants of the Transvaal The value of property in Pretoria The Transvaal officials dismissed The Royal Commission Mode of trial of persons accused of atrocities Decision of the Commission and its results The severance of territory question Arguments pro and con Opinion of Sir E. Wood Humility of the Commissioners and its cause Their decision on the Keate award question The Montsoia difficulty The compensation and financial clauses of the report of the Commission The duties of the British Resident Sir E. Wood's dissent from the report of the Commission Signing of the Convention Burial of the Union Jack The native side of the question Interview between the Commissioners and the native chiefs Their opinion of the surrender Objections of the Boer Volksraad to the Convention Mr.
When after a week had gone, Craig rode up one early morning to his shack door, his face told me that he had fought his fight and had not been beaten. He had ridden all night and was ready to drop with weariness. 'Connor, old boy, he said, putting out his hand; 'I'm rather played. There was a bad row at the Landing. I have just closed poor Colley's eyes. It was awful. I must get sleep.
Ward The Boer rejoicings The Transvaal placed under martial law Abandonment of their homes by the people of Pretoria Sir Owen Lanyon's admirable defence organisation Second proclamation issued by the Boers Its complete falsehood Life at Pretoria during the siege Murders of natives by the Boers Loyal conduct of the native chiefs Difficulty of preventing them from attacking the Boers Occupation of Lang's Nek by the Boers Sir George Colley's departure to Newcastle The condition of that town The attack on Lang's Nek Its desperate nature Effect of victory on the Boers The battle at the Ingogo Our defeat Sufferings of the wounded Major Essex Advance of the Boers into Natal Constant alarms Expected attack on Newcastle Its unorganised and indefensible condition Arrival of the reinforcements and retreat of the Boers to the Nek Despatch of General Wood to bring up more reinforcements Majuba Hill Our disaster, and death of Sir George Colley Cause of our defeat A Boer version of the disaster Sir George Colley's tactics.
Those who survived were next day taken to the hospital at Newcastle. What Sir George Colley's real object was in exposing himself to the attack has never transpired. It can hardly have been to clear the road, as he says in his despatch, because the road was not held by the enemy, but only visited occasionally by their patrols.
And wherever Nick's voice ran Colley's followed, the pipes laughing after them a note or two below; while the flutes kept gurgling softly to themselves as a hill brook gurgles through the woods, and the harps ran gently up and down like rain among the daffodils. One voice called, the other answered; there were echo-like refrains; and as they sang Nick's heart grew full.
He cared not a stiver for the crowd, the golden palace, or the great folk there the Queen no more he only listened for Colley's voice coming up lovingly after his own and running away when he followed it down, like a lad and a lass through the bloom of the May.
What Sir George Colley's motive was in making so rash a move is, of course, quite inexplicable to the outside observer. It was said at the time in Natal that he was a man with a theory: namely, that small bodies of men properly handled were as useful and as likely to obtain the object in view as a large force.
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