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In short, however for one brief moment they might have gone astray, now, to their honour be it said, they followed the path of duty with unflinching feet, nor did they complain when the stones cut them. But it was all a living lie, and they knew it. For behind them stood the irrevocable Past, who for good or evil had bound them together in his unchanging bonds, and with cords that never can be broken 189 CHAPTEE XIX HANS COETZEE COMES TO PRETORIA Once he had turned the corner, John's recovery w...as rapid. Naturally of a vigorous constitution, when the artery had reunited, he soon made up for the great loss of blood which he had undergone, and in a little more than a month from the date of his wound physically, was almost as good a man as ever. One morning— it was the 20th of March^Jess and he were sitting in * The Palatial ' garden. John was lying in- a long cane deck chair that Jess had borrowed or stolen out of one of the deserted houses, and smoking a pipe. By his side, in a hole in the flat arm of the chair, fashioned originally to receive a soda-water tumbler, was a great bunch of purple grapes which she had gathered for him ; and on his knees lay a copy of that journalistic curiosity, the ' News of the Camp, ' which was chiefly remarkable for its utter dearth of news.
What I notice in Haggard's writing , which I never did before, is that he denigrated Boers at every opportunity. For instance the way he writes about Paul Kruger who really WAS a Great Man is totally disgusting. He writes exactly as a snob and from a superior height. He writes about South Africa but sounds as if "England Uber Alles" is his mental condition. His total experience of Sth Africa was exactly 6 years. Hardly qualifying him as an expert that he can denigrate so heavily that hardy independent people who carved out their own way..
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