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its tunnel of ,

but you do not see the thought within Still, sometimes, when she

believes that no one beholds or hears her"--here I bethoughtlady's soliloquy over my apparently senseless self--"or when she

is surprised, the true thought peeps out of its tunnel It did so the

other day, when I pleaded with her after she had heard that I killed the

buffalo with the cleft horn

"'Do I love you?' she said 'I know not for sure How can I tell? It is

not our custom that a maiden should love before she is s of the heart and not of

cattle, and then half the fathers of Zululand would grow poor and refuse

to rear girl-children ould bring the You are brave, you

are handsome, you are well-born; I would sooner live with you than

with any other man I know--that is, if you were rich and, better still,

powerful Become rich and powerful, Saduko, and I think that I shall

love you' "'I will, Mameena,' I answered; 'but youin a day First Chaka had to come' "'Ah!' she said, and, my father, her eyes flashed 'Ah! Chaka! There was

a man! Be another Chaka, Saduko, and I will love you more-- her arms about me and kissed

us is a

strange thing for a girl to do Then she thrust , you must ask my father of that

Am I not his heifer, to be sold, and can I disobeyh she took my vitals

with her Nor will she talk thus any one

back into its tunnel"