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"I found the Englishmen supple as a tanned skin. They will give up their twelve prisoners for our four. The men are to be in by ten to-morrow. I told their commandant about Laing's Nek and Ingogo, and he would not believe me. He thought I lied like himself. They are getting hungry there now. I saw a Hottentot I knew, and he told me that their bones were beginning to show."
The relations between Lord Roberts and Buller during the Natal campaign were rather those of leaders commanding the armies of allied nations than of superior officer and subordinate. Thus the westward movement, instead of being a helpful operation at large in support of the main advance, was whittled down to the turning of Laing's Nek.
Laing's opinions on this point, and show very clearly his utter incapacity for elementary philosophic thought. Here, as elsewhere, as soon as he leaves the bare record of facts and embarks in any kind of speculation, he shows himself helpless; however, he tries to fortify his own courage and that of his readers, with "it is clear," "it is evident," "it is certain."
William Starrett and other Republicans on the platform. Laing's Hall was packed with Irishmen and when he first mentioned woman suffrage all of them hissed, but after he pointed out the absurdity of letting the negroes vote and shutting out their own mothers and wives, the tide turned and they cheered for the women. The next meeting was at Lawrence, and here Mr.
Laing's face displayed relief; he felt that he was in his depth again. "Oh, got married, you mean? Well, of course, he'd have to pull up a bit, wouldn't he? Hang it, I think it's a fellow's duty. "You don't quite understand me," observed Lady Deane coldly. "He did not marry the woman." "What, did she give him the I mean, wouldn't she have him, Lady Deane?"
When he led the Boers at Majuba and Laing's Nek, in 1881, he was in the prime of his life energetic, resourceful, and undaunted by any reverses. In 1899, when he followed the commandos into Natal, he was absolutely the reverse slow, wavering, and too timid to move from his tent.
The Boer guards pointed out to us where they had mounted their big cannons to defend Laing's Nek, and remarked that the pass was now impregnable. I could not resist saying, 'This is not the only road into the Transvaal. 'Ah, but you English always come where we want you to come. We now approached the frontier.
Was there ever a more unpractical and short-sighted assertion! Convince men that the dictates of conscience are those of fear or selfishness, that they are all mere animal instincts, that they are anything less than divine, and who will care for Mr. Laing's appeal to blind faith in the "rightness of right"?
"I tell you that my grandfather's brother was at Cape Town in the time of Governor Smith, and he counted the whole British army, and there were three thousand of them." "That is so, my aunt," answered Carolus. "Then why did you contradict me, Carolus?" "I did not intend to, my aunt." Tell me how many Englishmen were killed at Laing's Nek?" "Nine hundred," replied Carolus promptly.
Monastery, £18; Guy Mannering, £27, 10s.; Old Mortality, £33; Antiquary, £42; Rob Roy, £50; Peveril of the Peak, £42; Waverley, £18; Abbot, £14; Ivanhoe, £12; Pirate, £12; Nigel, £16, 16s.; Kenilworth, £17; Bride of Lammermoor, £14, 14s. Total £317. See David Laing's Catalogue, pp. 99-108, for an account of the dispersion and sales of the original MSS., prose and poetry.
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