trial-grounds

Updated: May 15, 2025

One result was, that I found out in those trial-grounds ever so many reasons why flight from Africa would be unthinkable for me. As to her, my other friend, who had taken Africa so complacently and so very much for granted, Africa made revelations to her at each stage of a journey that was rousing in itself, for it brought her away from her western station to a very different countryside.

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