He was away shooting buck, so he escaped, and inherited all his father's farms and cattle, and came to live here." "So!" said the Hottentot, without showing the slightest interest or surprise.

"I knew it would be so, but I wish I had been there to see it.
I saw that there was a devil in the woman, and that they would die as she said.

When there is a devil in people they always speak the truth, because they can't help it.

Look, Baas, I draw a circle in the sand with my foot, and I say some words so, and at last the ends touch.

There, that is the circle of _Oom_ Jacob and his wife the Englishwoman.