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Wessels urged that, as there was specific provision in the statute law for cases of this nature, the statute law would of course apply in preference to Roman-Dutch law. Dr. Coster said he presumed that this would be the case, but that he was not quite sure whether Roman-Dutch law would not apply.
Then while our men kept in cover behind the fort which they had just taken, the English left the schanzes upon which the storming party had been firing so fiercely; this, however, Veldtcornet Wessels and his burghers did not know, because, after having rested a little, and desiring to renew the attack, they only saw that everything was quiet there, and that they were now only under the fire of guns from the western forts, which lay right above the town.
"They would come in here; they wouldn't wait outside not on such a cold night as this. Don't you think so, Aunt Wess'?" But Mrs. Wessels, a lean, middle-aged little lady, with a flat, pointed nose, had no suggestions to offer.
She calls him a chosen wessel, and only wishes I was half as sure of salvation. As for the congregation, they are a complete set of chosen wessels together, and the more you blow 'em up, the better the wessels like it. If what they call the world didn't speak agin 'em, they'd be afraid they were going wrong. So you never can offend them."
Wessels asked him whether he would pledge himself to this effect, and what, for instance, would be done in case a witness who had been heard at the preliminary examination should die before the main trial came off. The reply was, that in such a case of course the Government would be bound to use some of the evidence, but would use it with discretion and not unfairly.
"She is dead. I feared some such catastrophe when I saw her last evening. She was in the last stages of heart disease." "And who was she? what was her name?" asked kind-hearted Captain Wessels, looking down with pitying eyes at the fair pale face. The steward brought his lists. "Berth No. 22," he read "Miss Rhoda Steele."
All the lads were provided with compasses, but these were not necessary, as both the natives were well acquainted with the country, which was wild and mountainous. When they reached Wessels station, nine miles from Elandslaagte, they heard the sound of guns.
"I've always understood," said Jack, sticking to his opinion, "that wessels floats by vartue of water, and not by vartue of air; and, that when the water gets on the wrong side on 'em, there's little hope left of keepin' 'em up." "What has become of the boat?" suddenly cried the mate. "I have been so much occupied as to have forgotten the boat. In that boat we might all of us still reach Key West.
The third hole lay two hundred and five yards below, backed by the road and trapped by ditches, where at that moment Pollock, true to his traditions as a war correspondent, was laboring in the trenches, to the unrestrained delight of Wessels, who had passed beyond.
They are sure to be along." Wessels had watched the interview, and had guessed that Laura was none too gracious. Always anxious that her sister should make a good impression, the little girl was now in great distress. "Laura is putting on her 'grand manner," she lamented. "I just know how she's talking. The man will hate the very sound of her name all the rest of his life."
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