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Some of the more prominent Boer officers, such as General De Wet and others, have been accused occasionally of having ill-treated prisoners-of-war. Most of these charges on examination proved groundless. Mr. Erskine Childers, in a letter to the Times, expressed himself on this matter as follows:
Moved by this thought, I made a circuit of the place, and ascended a knoll to reconnoiter. Solitude. No creature was near. Then I returned to my mine, fortifying myself against possible disappointment, but my fears were groundless the shining scales were still there. I set about scooping them out, and for an hour I toiled down the windings of the stream and robbed its bed.
Winterbotham, a little before, had been thrown into prison for the freedom of his political remarks in a sermon at Plymouth, and we were half fearful whether in his impetuous current of feeling, some stray expressions might not subject our friend to a like visitation. Our fears were groundless. Strange as it may appear in Mr.
Schreiner is of opinion that your fears are groundless and your anticipations in the matter entirely without foundation. Such is the official reply to the remonstrance of the inhabitants, when, with the shadow of war dark upon them, they appealed for help.
Thomas, who evidently thought Roger's fear groundless, was laughing, but I could not hear his reply. In any case he gave no order to prepare for action until the boat came within earshot and the captain abruptly hailed him and ordered him to trip anchor and prepare to make sail. As the boat came aboard, we heard news that thrilled us. "She's an Arab ship," spread the word.
Then, too, we feared that Hyde's boy, because of the misunderstanding between Peter Hyde and myself, might try to make it uncomfortable for you. That alarm seems now to have been groundless, since surely a boy who could do what he did and join you in doing it wouldn't be likely to pick on another. But that's of no consequence now, as it happens.
Tender and reluctant, indeed, are these reproaches; but, as I deem it a sacred duty to reveal to you the utmost of my follies, what but injustice to you would be the tacit admission of injurious but groundless charges? My actual faults are of too deep a dye to allow me to sport with your good opinion, or permit me to be worse thought of by you than I deserve.
But the explanation was delayed until the whole of the Bengal army was smitten with the groundless fear; and then, when it was too late, the authorities protested too much, and the terror-stricken sepoys refused to believe them. The sepoys had proved themselves brave under fire, and loyal to their salt in sharp extremities; but they are the most credulous and excitable soldiery in the world.
"I have committed many follies no doubt, but I do not call to mind any which I should be afraid to confess." Szilard began to fancy that his suspicions were groundless. "People are talking of a certain bill which you have given in your sister's name?" At these words Coloman cast down his eyes upon his plate and his whole face grew blood-red.
"What eyes you have!" exclaimed Petrus. "Dim, grey eyes," said Dorothea, "and not even particularly keen. But when anything concerns you and the children I could see it in the dark. You are dissatisfied with Polykarp; yesterday, before he set out for Raithu, you looked at him so so what shall I say? I can quite imagine what it is all about, but I believe you are giving yourself groundless anxiety.
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