If so, I have a very good medicine, one that you white people do not know, which improves the taste of the coffee, and it might save much trouble.

You see, if he came dancing about the place without any clothes on, like a common Kaffir, the Heer Marais, although _he_ is really mad also, might not wish for him as a son-in-law." "Oh! go to the devil if you are not there already," I replied, and turned over as though to sleep.
There was no need for me to have instructed that faithful creature, the astute but immoral Hans, to call me early, as the lady did her mother in the poem, for I do not think that I closed an eye that night.

I spare my reflections, for they can easily be imagined in the case of an earnest-natured lad who was about to be bereft of his first love.
Long before the dawn I stood in the peach orchard, that orchard where we had first met, and waited.

At length Marie came stealing between the tree trunks like a grey ghost, for she was wrapped in some light-coloured garment.

Oh! once more we were alone together.