Yet to have such clothes as that to wear every day, while all the people salute you and make a path for you, is not a thing to be laughed at.

See boy, it just comes to this: here you are poor and little, there you may be rich and much, and it is our duty not to stand in your road, though it may break our hearts to lose you.

So you had best make up your mind to go away with the damned Scotchmen when they come, though I hope that you will think kindly of us when you get to your own country.

Yes, yes, you shall go, and what is more, you may take my best horse to ride away on, the thoroughbred _schimmel_, and my new black felt hat that I bought in the dorp.

There, that is done with, praise be to God, and I am going out, for this place is so thick with smoke that I can't see my own hand," and he rose to go, adding that if the two Scotchmen did not want a bullet through them, it would be as well if they kept out of his way when they came upon the farm.
Now in saying that the room was thick with smoke Jan lied, for both the men's pipes went out when they began to talk.