Behind him came the lad who had occasioned this expedition, and behind, puffing heavily, came Jakob ' 'But it's your battle, sir. They would find it impossible to say flatly that in time Of deepest crisis their president had fled his country, abandoning it to the enemy. ' But of this they said nothing.
Those are the first words I've ever heard him speak. Like a fiery broom he swept away the Boers. ' When all were safely behind him, he turned to face the distant enemy and started riding slowly toward the laager, as ordered. There they would laugh at him and jeer, and no woman would want to share that humiliation.
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