Don't you know that a government is like a woman who cries 'No, no, no,' and kisses you all the time?
If there is noise enough your British Government will eat its words and give Wolseley, and Shepstone, and Bartle Frere, and Lanyon, and all of them the lie.

This is a bigger business than you think for, _Oom_ Silas.

Of course all these meetings and talk are got up.

The people are angry because of the English way of dealing with the natives, and because they have to pay taxes; and they think, now that you British have paid their debts and smashed up Sikukuni and Cetewayo, that they would like to have the land back.

They were glad enough for you to take it at first; now it is another matter.
But still that is not much.