Hearts and plates are brittle things, but the last can be bought in iron, as I wish the first could be also.

Yes, husband, we will trek if you desire it." "What say you, son ?" asked Jan.
Ralph answered his question by another.

"In which direction will the emigrants trek ?" "North, I believe, to the Vaal River." "Then, father, I say let us go," he replied with more spirit than he had shown for a long while, "for I have searched and inquired to the south and the east and the west, and in them I can hear of no mountain that has ridges upon its eastern slopes shaped like the thumb and fingers of a man's hand with a stream of water issuing from between the thumb and first finger." Now once more we were silent, for we saw that his madness had again taken hold of Ralph's mind, and that was a sad silence..