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He understood that he was to have his own way, and was to be permitted to regard himself as betrothed to her, but he did not at all understand what steps he was to take in the matter, except that he was not to go again to the diamond-fields. But Mr Whittlestaff hurried himself off to his hotel, and shut himself up in his own bedroom, and when there, he sobbed, alas! like a child.
If you spoke the truth, you came all the way home from the diamond-fields with the same object." "I certainly spoke the truth, Mr Whittlestaff." "Then what's the good of your pretending not to know?" "I have not pretended. I merely said that I could not presume to put the young lady's name into your mouth until you had uttered it yourself.
"No doubt. I am a poor miserable man who does not know the world. I have never been to the diamond-fields. Of course I understand nothing of the charms of speculation. A quiet life with my book is all that I care for; with just one other thing, one other thing. You begrudge me that." "Mr Whittlestaff, it does not signify a straw what I begrudge you."
Then, in about 1870, came the discovery of the diamond-fields, situated on the then still ill-defined western limits of the State. According to a boundary line claimed by Great Britain, those diamond-fields fell outside Free State territory. That State received £90,000 compensation for improvements and expenses incurred during its short occupation of that disputed strip of diamondiferous ground.
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