For it must always be remembered that Marais loved Marie passionately, however ill the reader of this history may think that he behaved to her.

She was his darling, the apple of his eye, and her great offence in his sight was that she cared for me more than she did for him.

That is one of the reasons why he hated me as much as he loved her.
Almost before I had finished reading this letter, the order came that we were to go in a body to bid farewell to Dingaan, leaving our arms piled beneath the two milk trees at the gate of the town.

Most of our after-riders were commanded to accompany us--I think because Retief wished to make as big a show as possible to impress the Zulus.

A few of these Hottentots, however, were told to stay behind that they might collect the horses, that were knee-haltered and grazing at a distance, and saddle them up.