[The Story of an African Farm by (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner]@TWC D-Link book
The Story of an African Farm

CHAPTER 2
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How happy he would be sewing frills into his little girl's frocks, and how pretty he would look sitting in a parlour, with a rough man making love to him! Don't you think so ?" "I shall not stay here when he is master," Waldo answered, not able to connect any kind of beauty with Gregory Rose.
"I should imagine not.

The rule of a woman is tyranny; but the rule of a man-woman grinds fine.

Where are you going ?" "Anywhere." "What to do ?" "See--see everything." "You will be disappointed." "And were you ?" "Yes; and you will be more so.

I want things that men and the world give, you do not.

If you have a few yards of earth to stand on, and a bit of blue over you, and something that you cannot see to dream about, you have all that you need, all that you know how to use.


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