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They started on foot, stating their intention of walking to Estcourt, hiring horses from natives there, and proceeding on horseback. They had evidently never reached Estcourt, as nothing could be heard of them at that village. They were both young men colonists by birth. Dollond had an especially youthful appearance. Franks was older. He had joined the force later in life.
The voice of the sleeper went ruthlessly on. Scene for scene, word for word, Julian Estcourt lived over again through the wild dread and horror of his Dream. Scene for scene, word for word, those wondering startled listeners saw it reproduced, though to them it was scarce intelligible.
When Julian Estcourt entered the public drawing-room, nearly two hours after he had left it, several curious eyes turned towards him. The card-players had finished their game and broken up into various groups. A few men were yawning and apparently meditating a retreat to the smoking-room.
And I wish I had said to him, 'If the Lord Jesus were to come walking towards us now, and sit down here, would you be afraid to see Him?" "And would not you, dear Arthur?" asked his aunt. "Why, no, Aunt Daisy! How could I? The little children that He took up in His arms were not. I am sure I should not be afraid." Mrs. Estcourt did not say anything, but she was thinking of what Arthur had said.
Buller, soon after his arrival in Natal, found himself in command of a force of 19,000 men with whom to tackle about 21,000 Boers under the command of L. Botha. Joubert was invalided after the unsuccessful Estcourt raid, and the change was, from the enemy's point of view, for the better. The new Head Commandant was a more strenuous and active leader than his predecessor.
J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOURT, Lieutenant-Colonel, H.B.M. Commissioner of Boundary. ALBERT SMITH, United States Commissioner. WASHINGTON, August 18, 1842.
There was no time for further conversation, for they were now within a short distance of the Tugela, and the train was winding its way between steep hills which could have been held successfully by a handful of men. "The only wonder to me is," another officer said, "that the Boers did not take up and drag away the rails all the way from here to Estcourt.
And he sank on his knees and sobbed like a child in the star-lit solitude of the night. The next day, when Colonel Estcourt sent to know if the Princess Zairoff would receive him, he was informed she was ill, and could see no one.
About two weeks after his arrival in his new home, when Arthur came down one morning to breakfast, something in his aunt's face made him think of pleasant things; so that his "Good morning, auntie," seemed rather like a question. "I think you had better have breakfast," said Mrs. Estcourt, smiling, but holding something in her hand towards him, at the same time. "A letter!"
Nearly everything was ready, and the whole people sprang to arms with alacrity, firmly believing that they would drive the British into the sea. To that opinion they still adhere. I do not myself share it; but it cannot be denied that it seems less absurd to-day than it did before a shot had been fired. To return to Estcourt. Here we are passing through a most dangerous period.
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