8/20 After all, what has brought things to this pass? Why, just a narrow, jealous race-hatred which makes helots of British men. Simple farmers, the sentimental newspapers call them--simple Machiavellis in veldschoen!" * * A glossary of South African words will be found at the end of the book. "But England is a very conventional chef," he replied. "She likes the eggs for her omelette broken in the orthodox way." "She's not so particular where the eggs come from, is she ?" Stafford smiled as he answered: "There'll be a good many people in England who won't sleep to-night some because they want Jameson to get in; some because they don't; but most because they're thinking of the millions of British money locked up in the Rand, with Kruger standing over it with a sjambak, which he'll use. |