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He did succeed in finding John Gordon, who was listlessly waiting at the Claimant's Arms for the coming of the four o'clock train which was to take him back to London, on his way, as he told himself, to the diamond-fields. He had thrown all his heart, all the energy of which he was the master, into the manner in which he had pleaded for himself and for Mary with Mr Whittlestaff.
So they runs poor Jim's near wheel right up agin that bank and upsets the whole concern, as neat as needs be, over agin that bit o' bog. Anybody hurt? Well, yes: they was all what you might call shook. Mr. Bell, he had his arm broke, and a foreign chap from the diamond-fields, he gets killed outright, and Jim himself had his head cut open. It was a bad business, you bet, and rough upon Jim. Ja!"
I am much obliged for your congratulations, certainly; but whether the diamonds here be many or few, we shall of course all share alike, so you may also congratulate yourself and our absent friends at the same time. And as to my supposition being correct, I have had too much experience at the South African diamond-fields to make a mistake in such a matter.
He had been sure of her love when he had left the house at Norwich, in which he had been told that he had been lingering there to no good purpose; but he had never been more certain than he was at this moment, when she coldly bade him go and depart back again to his distant home in the diamond-fields.
His idea of the diamond-fields was disturbed by the promised return of his late partner and his wife. "And you mean to reduce me to this misery?" asked Mr Tookey. "I don't care a straw for your misery." "What!" "Not for your picture of your misery.
He had, however, collected together what means he had been able to gather, and had gone to Cape Town in South Africa. Thence he had made his way up to Kimberley, and had there been at work among the diamond-fields for two years. If there be a place on God's earth in which a man can thoroughly make or mar himself within that space of time, it is the town of Kimberley.
"I have to walk back to Alresford, and must see Mr Whittlestaff early in the morning. According to your view of the case I shan't do much with him. And if it be so, I shall be off to the diamond-fields again by the first mail." "You don't say so!" "That is to be my lot in life. I am very glad to have come across you once again, and am delighted to find you so happy in your prospects.
"She's in London now." "What! She got back from the Portuguese settlement?" "Yes. She did not stay there long. I don't suppose that the Portuguese are very nice people." "Perhaps not." "At any rate they don't have much money among them." "Not after the lavish expenditure of the diamond-fields," suggested Gordon. "Just so. Poor Matilda had been accustomed to all that money could buy for her.
"One man may not be so happy as another," said Gordon, laughing. "You have suited yourself admirably, and seem to think it quite easy for a man to make a selection." "Not quite such a selection as mine, perhaps," said Blake. "Then think of the difficulty. Do you suppose that any second Miss Forrester would dream of going to the diamond-fields with me?" "Perhaps not," said Blake.
The other was a man named Sims, who had been known on the diamond-fields as "The Fighting Blacksmith." He was of small stature, but possessed great strength, and was skilled in the use of his fists. Mr. Ellis was in those days not by any means the prosperous merchant he is today. Nevertheless he gave me what assistance he could, and thus earned a claim on my gratitude which I shall not forget.
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