hill-fastness

Updated: May 10, 2025

So it came to pass that his party went off to tea with but side-glances at the hill-fastness. 'I'm neither a baboon nor a nigger, said their host, when I proposed that he should go up. After all, it was good-natured of him to motor the dignitary out, I considered. He himself affected no sort of interest in antiquities, and the dignified antiquarian under his care was so wearily keen.

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales