The reasons I have for marrying you I need not inform you of now; you will probably discover some of them before long." "I only want to be of some use to you," he said.
It seemed to Gregory that there were pulses in the soles of his feet, and the ground shimmered as on a summer's day.

They walked round the foot of the kopje and past the Kaffer huts.

An old Kaffer maid knelt at the door of one grinding mealies.

That she should see him walking so made his heart beat so fast, that the hand on his arm felt its pulsation.

It seemed that she must envy him.
Just then Em looked out again at the back window and saw them coming.
She cried bitterly all the while she sorted the skins.
But that night when Lyndall had blown her candle out, and half turned round to sleep, the door of Em's bedroom opened.
"I want to say good night to you, Lyndall," she said, coming to the bedside and kneeling down.
"I thought you were asleep," Lyndall replied.
"Yes, I have been asleep; but I had such a vivid dream," she said, holding the other's hands, "and that woke me.