1 is removed, as a general rule they shed many a tear and suffer many a pang, and after a decent interval very sensibly turn their attention to No.

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Still it was but a pale-faced, quiet Bessie who went to and fro about the place after the visit of the one-eyed Kafir.

All her irritability had left her now; she no longer reproached her uncle because he had despatched John to Pretoria.

Indeed, on that very evening after the evil tidings came, he began to blame himself bitterly in her presence for having sent her lover away, when she stopped him.
"It is God's will, uncle," she said quietly.

"You only did what it was ordained that you should do." Then she came and laid her sunny head upon the old man's shoulder and cried a little, and said that they two were all alone in the world now; and he comforted her in the best fashion that he could.