Marie

By Haggard, Henry Rider

Book Id: WPLBN0000627367
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Marie
Author:	Haggard, Henry Rider
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: Nearly thirty?seven years have gone by, more than a generation, since first we saw the shores of Southern Africa rising from the sea. Since then how much has happened: the Annexation of the Transvaal, the Zulu War, the first Boer War, the discovery of the Rand, the taking of Rhodesia, the second Boer War, and many other matters which in these quick?moving times are now reckoned as ancient history. Alas! I fear that were we to re?visit that country we should find but few faces which we knew. Yet of one thing we may be glad. Those historical events, in some of which you, as the ruler of Natal, played a great part, and I, as it chanced, a smaller one, so far as we can foresee, have at length brought a period of peace to Southern Africa. To?day the flag of England flies from the Zambesi to the Cape. Beneath its shadow may all ancient feuds and blood jealousies be forgotten. May the natives prosper also and be justly ruled, for after all in the beginning the land was theirs. Such, I know, are your hopes, as they are mine.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Marie, 1 -- H. Rider Haggard, 1 -- Marie -- i