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time among English servant girls than perhaps 

 any other class, should have been thought of by 

 this quiet Dutch girl upon a remote South African 

 farm, who had almost certainly never heard or 

 read of any precedent for such conduct. In a later 

 chapter (xx.) will be found a Boer ghost story, 

 sufficiently thrilling in its nature, and firmly believed 

 in by the farmers of the district in which the scene 

 is laid. 



