Anyway, it was read, after which there came an awkward pause as though people were waiting to see something happen.

I looked round at the Boers who were muttering and handling their rifles uneasily.

Had they found a leader I really think that some of the wilder spirits among them would have begun to shoot, but none appeared and the crisis passed.
The crowd began to disperse, the English among them cheering and throwing up their hats, the Dutch with very sullen faces.

The Commissioner's staff went away as it had come, back to the building with blue gums in front of it, which afterwards became Government House, that is all except you.

You started across the square alone with a bundle of printed proclamations in your hand which evidently you had been charged to leave at the various public offices.
"Let us follow him," I said to Mr.Anscombe.