I mean that the land is English now," he answered mysteriously, "and though I dare not say so among my _volk_, I hope that it will keep English.

When I was Republican, I was Republican, and it was good in some ways, the Republic.

There was so little to pay in taxes, and we knew how to manage the black folk; but now I am English, I am English.

I know the English Government means good money and safety, and if there isn't a _Raad_ (assembly) now, well, what does it matter?
Almighty, how they used to talk there!--clack, clack, clack! just like an old black _koran_ (species of bustard) at sunset.

And where did they run the waggon of the Republic to--Burghers and those damned Hollanders of his, and the rest of them?
Why, into the _sluit_--into a _sluit_ with peaty banks; and there it would have stopped till now, or till the flood came down and swept it away, if old Shepstone--ah! what a tongue that man has, and how fond he is of the _kinderchies!_ (little children)--had not come and pulled it out again.