So you see it will help me very much in this big business if you come with me." Still I hesitated, for some fear of the future lay heavy on my heart, warning me against this expedition.
"Allemachte!" said Retief angrily, "if you will not grant me a favour, let it be.

Or is it that you want reward?
If so, all I can promise you is twenty thousand acres of the best land in the country when we get it." "No, Mynheer Retief," I replied; "it is no question of reward; and as for the land, I have already pegged out my farm on a river about thirty miles to the east.

It is that I do not like to leave Marie alone, fearing lest her father should play some trick on me as regards her and Hernan Pereira." "Oh, if that is all you are afraid of, Allan, I can soon settle matters; for I will give orders to the predicant Celliers that he is not to marry Marie Marais to anyone except yourself, even if she asks him.

Also I will order that if Hernan Pereira should come to the camp, he is to be shut up until I return to try him.

Lastly, as commandant, I will name Henri Marais as one of those who are to accompany us, so that he will be able to plot nothing against you.