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The blue daffodil, you know, is called after one of the grower's relatives Vrouw Van Heigen." Rawson-Clew said "Yes," though he did not know it before. It struck him as interesting now; the Van Heigens had a blue daffodil then, and Julia went to them for some purpose besides earning a pittance as companion.
Nicholas dolls with currant eyes, and they knew at once that there was nothing else in all the market they should like so much! "Do these cost two cents apiece, dear Vrouw Van der Kloot?" asked Kat. "No," said Vrouw Van der Kloot; "they cost one cent apiece." The Twins were discouraged. "I don't believe there's a single thing in this whole market that costs just two cents," said Kat.
When I came to myself two weeks afterwards, for I had been very ill and in delirium, I was lying in the house of the Vrouw Prinsloo alone. The Boers had all gone, east and west and north and south, and the dead were long buried. They had taken Henri Marais with them, so I was told, dragging him away in a bullock cart, to which he was tied, for he was raving mad.
As Krool left the room he said to himself: "The Baas speaks her for his vrouw. But the Baas will go back quick to the Vaal p'r'aps." Then an evil smile passed over his face, as he thought of the fall of the Rooinek of Dr. Jim in Oom Paul's clutches. He opened and shut his fingers again with a malignant cruelty.
He went on: "Now you shall know what to look for, and when the verdoemte explosives come, you will know them by the boxes and the letters 'A.O.S. and you will tell me and the guns of our Staats Artillery will not shoot that way, for the sake of the little woman who is going to be a true Boer's vrouw by-and-by."
Stafford went on, jerking a finger towards the other room. "They are from the veld. They will have you as sure as the crack of a whip. This is England, but they are from the veld. On the veld you know what they would do to you. If you speak against the Baas, it is bad for you; if you speak against the Baas' vrouw it will be ten times worse. Do you hear?"
"Then you may sell me a cabbage and ten onions," said Vrouw Van der Kloot. Father Vedder's eyes twinkled, and he lit his pipe. Kit got a cabbage for the Vrouw. "You can get the ten onions," he said to Kat. You see, really Kit couldn't count ten and be sure of it. So he asked Kat to do it. Kat wasn't afraid. She took out a little pile of onions in a measure, and said to Vrouw Van der Kloot,
When I reached the camp it was to find all the Boers clustered together waiting for me, and with them the Reverend Mr. Owen and his people, including a Welsh servant of his, a woman of middle age who, I remember, was called Jane. "Well," said the Vrouw Prinsloo, "and what is your news, young man?"
Hans looked up anxiously, dreading lest his mother should grow agitated, as usual, when speaking of the lost money, but she was silently nibbling her bread and looking with a doleful stare toward the window. "Thousand guilders," echoed a faint voice from the bed. "Ah, I am sure they have been of good use to you, vrouw, through the long years when your man was idle." The poor woman started up.
The Vrouw Prinsloo, in her absurd night garments, was waddling towards the figure, and a little way off stood Hernan Pereira, apparently in the act of reloading a double-barrelled gun. Beyond, staring at him, stood the lantern-faced Henri Marais, pulling at his long beard with one hand and holding a rifle in the other.
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