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The peasant costume she was obliged to keep on. However, she could tell her husband that it was her kitchen dress. The keys of the corridor and the trapdoor Michal handed to Pirka, that she might admit the knocker below.
Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death. And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies; That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
A true relation of the thoughtlessness of youth, and the artifices whereby women enthrall their lovers. "I am afraid!" said Michal, when she found herself in the middle of the dark forest. "What's there to be afraid of?" cried Pirka.
"And now, my dear little froggy! you will see that the black buck-goat will bring you your sweetheart, only we must wait till the old and the young master are well out of the way, which will certainly happen when the Eperies annual fair begins." Michal believed everything the witch told her. What else could she have done? All her former faith had been destroyed. She believed in nothing more.
After the meal was over, pretty Michal was also allowed to appear at table, first, to be complimented by the superintendent on account of the banquet they had all enjoyed so much whereupon her face, ruddy enough already from the kitchen fire, grew ruddier still and secondly, that she might just moisten her lips with a little wine in honor of her father's guests.
She has been watching for the time when the husband would not be at home! When pretty Michal got home again her face was paler than ever. All her limbs were as cold as ice. Perhaps she would even have been taken ill had not Dame Sarah, there and then, insisted upon her swallowing a hot wine-and-nutmeg posset.
The next meeting I held on the 26th of April, at Tweepoort Farm, with the commandos under General Michal Prinsloo. Mr. Jan Van Schalkwijk was chosen as chairman, and Mr. B.J. Malan as secretary. Here also the votes were unanimous, and General Michal Prinsloo, Commandant Rautenbach, and Commandant J.J. Van Niekerk were elected as representatives. After that on Roodekraal Farm.
Not long after this arrangement had been made the district under General Froneman was divided into two divisions, and Commandant Michal Prinsloo was promoted to be Vice-Commander-in-Chief of Bethlehem and Ficksburg as separate sub-districts. Bethlehem was then given three Commandants, namely, Commandants Olivier, Rautenbach and Bruwer.
With that she turned and left the room, and there was but time for the husband and wife to exchange a few words, whereby Michal learnt that Barbara Pirka was an old housekeeper of the Catsriders, when back she came again with a change of raiment on her arm.
And now only a single dog was howling through the night. The storm, too, furiously shook the window-casements. Suddenly the last dog ceased barking. Pirka blinked, and said: "The master will soon be here now." During these odd scenes, Michal consoled herself with the reflection that the whole thing would be over in a day.
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