Perhaps they thought better of it, or perhaps they saw us two Englishmen behind and noticed Anscombe's pistol.

At any rate you marched into the office triumphant and delivered your document.
"Neatly done," said Mr.Anscombe.
"Rash," I said, shaking my head, "very rash.

Well, he's young and must be excused." But from that moment I took a great liking to you, my friend, perhaps because I wondered whether in your place I should have been daredevil enough to act in the same way.

For you see I am English, and I like to see an Englishman hold his own against odds and keep up the credit of the country.

Although, of course, I sympathized with the Boers who, through their own fault, were losing their land without a blow struck.