They are choosing them this morning." "So.

He makes a good Boer for one of English blood, does he not?
And yet I suppose that when he becomes English again he will soon forget that he was ever a Boer." "When he becomes English again, mother! What do you mean by that saying ?" she asked quickly.
"I mean that like will to like, and blood to blood; also that there may be a nest far away which this bird that we have caged should fill." "A nest far away, mother?
Then there is one here which would be left empty; in your heart and father's, I mean;" and dropping her sun-bonnet she turned pale and pressed her hands upon her own, adding, "Oh! speak straight words to me.

What do you mean by these hints ?" "I mean, Suzanne, that it is not well for any of us to let our love wrap itself too closely about a stranger.

Ralph is an Englishman, not a Boer.
He names me mother and your father, father; and you he names sister, but to us he is neither son nor brother.

Well, a day may come when he learns to understand this, when he learns to understand also that he has other kindred, true kindred far away across the sea; and if those birds call, who will keep him in the strange nest ?" "Ah!" she echoed, all dismayed, "who will keep him then ?" "I do not know," I answered; "not a foster father or mother.