You had better leave the girl to look after herself and go back to Mooifontein." But this was not John's view of the matter.

"Well," he answered, "at any rate I'll have a try." Indeed, he had a sort of bull-dog nature about him which led him to believe that if he made up his mind to do a thing, he would do it somehow, unless he should be physically incapacitated by circumstances beyond his own control.

It is wonderful how far a mood of the kind will take a man.

Indeed, it is the widespread possession of this sentiment that has made England what she is.

Now it is beginning to die down and to be legislated out of our national character, and the results are already commencing to appear in the incipient decay of our power.