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Marie

CHAPTER VI
19/25

Wake me an hour before the cock-crow--and, stay--see that the horses have got out of the kraal so that you cannot find them too easily in case the Reverend wishes to start very early.

But do not let them wander far, for here we are no welcome guests." "Yes, baas.

By the way, baas, the Heer Pereira, who tried to cheat you over those geese, is sleeping in an empty house not more than two miles away.

He drinks coffee when he wakes up in the morning, and his servant, who makes it, is my good friend.

Now would you like me to put a little something into it?
Not to kill him, for that is against the law in the Book, but just to make him quite mad, for the Book says nothing about that.


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