Still, I am ready to do so myself with one or two others.

Let me go, then, and try to persuade him to sign this treaty as to the land.

If I am killed or fail, you can follow after me and do better." "Allemachte!" exclaimed Retief; "that is a fair offer.

But how do I know, nephew, that when we came to read the treaty we should not find that it granted all the land to you English and not to us Boers?
No, no, don't look angry.

That was not a right thing to say, for you are honest whatever most of your blood may be.