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Now, bethinking herself of Marie's new dress, the vrouw produced her vatdoek from a capacious pocket, and doubled up that dingy article for Marie to kneel on, which she did. Then Pieter Retief, flinging down the book, clasped his hands and uttered this simple, earnest prayer, whereof, strangely enough, every word remains fast in my mind.
"Hoot, vrouw," spoke up Raff hastily, "thou'rt fresher and rosier this minute than both our chicks put together." This remark, though not bearing very strong testimony to the clearness of Raff's newly awakened intellect, nevertheless afforded the dame immense satisfaction. The meal accordingly went on in the most delightful manner.
Lay on till I get angry, it will make me forget," and taking a leathern jerkin off a peg he pulled it over his head. "Forget what, master?" "Oh! the prayings and the burnings and Vrouw Jansen, and Adrian's sea-lawyer sort of talk." "Ah, yes, that's the worst of them all for us," and the big man leapt forward and whispered. "Keep an eye on him, Master Foy."
So the Twins got down from the bench and went into the kitchen where Grandmother and Vrouw Vedder were. Their mother was spinning flax to make linen thread. "Mother," said the Twins, "will you please excuse us from being married." "O my soul!" said Vrouw Vedder. She seemed surprised. "We don't want to at all," said Kat. "We'd rather stay with you."
"None other would have left his oars out that careless." "Aye, it was Jan's boat, sure enough. The man will be coming in to see me Sunday, likely, if he's heard, and young Hoogsvliet too. Where was I?" "Where were you? Why, not very far, forsooth the lad hadn't yet given ye the watch alack, I misgive whether he came by it honestly!" "Why, vrouw," exclaimed Raff Brinker in an injured tone.
My mistress and her aunt, the Vrouw Clara, have gone away to stay for a week or ten days as the Vrouw Clara's health required a change." "Indeed," said Dirk aghast, "and where have they gone?" "Oh! Mynheer, I do not know that, they did not tell me," and no other answer could he extract from her. So Dirk went away discomfited and pondering.
"Oh, I will not sit down with you, of course," Julia answered sweetly; "I will take my coffee in the little room; is it not so, Mevrouw?" Vrouw Van Heigen nodded; she did not know what else to do, and Julia went away, leaving them as awkward and at a loss for words as if they were the delinquents, not she.
These and, to wind up with, some thin sweet biscuits carried in a papier-maché box, and handed out singly by Vrouw Van Heigen, who had brought them as a surprise and a treat. "Do they have such picnics as this in England?" Anna asked, as she gathered up the crumbs of her biscuit.
As I advanced to the wagons accompanied by Kambula and his two companions, I saw that Marais, in a state of great excitement, was engaged in haranguing the two Prinsloo men and Meyer, while the Vrouw Prinsloo and Marie appeared to be attempting to calm him. "They are unarmed," I heard him shout. "Let us seize the black devils and hold them as hostages."
Mijnheer was in his office; he did not think it quite right to come to see her start either; all the same he came to the door to tell the driver to be careful not to go on the grass. Joost came also and looked over his father's shoulder, and Julia, who had been amused at Vrouw Van Heigen, suddenly forgot this little amusement again. Joost left his father. "I will tell the man," he said.
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