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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: just when one's settled down to work. It's a damned convenient thing to
have a war like this to turn on and off."
Slowly the third man keeled round on to his stomach again: "Let
resignation wait. We fight the Matabele again tomorrow," he said,
sententiously.
A low titter ran round the group. Even the man under the bushes, though
his eyes were still closed and his arm across his face, let his mouth relax
a little, and showed his yellow teeth.
"I'm always expecting," said the big handsome man, "to have a paper come
round, signed by all the nigger chiefs, saying how much they love the
B.S.A. Company, and how glad they are the Panjandrum has got them, and how
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