So there, I suppose, he remains, unless he has thought it wiser to make off.

At any rate, I am sure that he will not come here to trouble you or anyone." "No, uncle, but he may trouble you _there_," I said doubtfully.
"What do you mean, Allan ?" "I don't quite know, but he is black-hearted, a traitor by nature, and in one way or the other he will stir up sorrow.

Do you think that he will love you, for instance, after you have hunted him out like a thief ?" Retief shrugged his shoulders and laughed as he answered: "I will take my chance of that.

What is the use of troubling one's head about such a snake of a man?
And now, Allan, I have something to ask you.

Are you married yet ?" "No, uncle, nor can be for another five weeks, when Marie comes of age.
Her father still holds that his oath binds him, and I have promised that I will not take her till then." "Does he indeed, Allan?
I think that Henri Marais is 'kransick' (that is, cracked), or else his cursed nephew, Hernan, has fascinated him, as a snake does a bird.