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As if, forsooth, the existence of our nationality began and ended in Pretoria! Pretoria was after all only a village where "patriots" of the Smit and de Beer stamp had for years been fattening on State funds, and, having filled their pockets by means of questionable practices, had helped to damage the reputation of a young and virile nation.
Well, Arvilly's last thing to love wuz taken from her cruelly, and when she got strong enough she sot off for Jonesville in her soldier clothes, for she thought she would wear 'em till she got away, but she wuz brung back as a deserter and Waitstill stood by her durin' her trial, and after Alan's death she too wuz smit down, like a posy in a cyclone.
These contained his wife with other members of his family, and some friends whom he was sending, under the charge of the Heer Smit, to a place called Doornkop, that lay at a distance of fifteen miles or more.
In Cherrapunji the houses are frequently large, but the largest house I have seen in the hills is that of the Doloi of Suhtnga in the Jaintia Hills which measures 74 ft. in length. The house of the Siem Priestess at Smit in the Khasi Hills is another large one, being 61 ft. long by 30 ft. broad.
She was smit into gravity again. "Not till the teacher is well." Herman pretended to be angry. "Dog take the teacher, the old spindle-legs! If I'd known he was going to raise such a ruction in our quiet and peaceful neighborhood, I never would have brought him here." Mattie did not laugh; she pondered.
I grudged the cash, but closed with the offer, and next day started on our journey of six hundred miles such being the distance we had to go, according to my employer or comrade, Jan Smit." "Who?" exclaimed Hans, with sudden energy. "Jan Smit," repeated Considine. "Do you know him?" "Ja but go on," said Hans, with a nod and a smile. "Well, I soon found that my Dutch comrade "
The youth required no urging. In a few minutes he was armed and mounted, galloping in company with a score of horsemen black, brown, and white towards the cattle-kraals. Here was already assembled by Hans a troop of mounted men, among whom were Jan Smit and his three sons, David, Jacob, and Hendrik, also the hunter Van Dyk.
I declare, said my uncle Toby, smit with pity, I know of none; unless it be the pleasure which it has pleased God A fiddlestick! quoth she. Mrs.
Wordsworth himself wrote a tragedy when he was young; and we have heard the following energetic lines quoted from it, as put into the mouth of a person smit with remorse for some rash crime: "Action is momentary, The motion of a muscle this way or that; Suffering is long, obscure, and infinite!"
It would not suit me; besides, I will take no engagement but with a crowned head. But Abreu likes travelling, and he has his own carriage, which pleases him. 'There are Philippon and Dumoreau, said Prevost; 'they are very safe. 'I was thinking of them, said Leander, 'they are safe, under you. And there is an Englishman, Smit, he is chef at Sir Stanley's, but his master is away at this moment.
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