《艾伦的妻子》华文教育丛书2.pdf

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Allan's Wife

by H. Rider Haggard

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DEDICATION

My Dear Macumazahn,

It was your native name which I borrowed at the
christening of that Allen who has e as well known
to me as any other friend I have. It is therefore fitting that
I should dedicate to you this, his last tale--the story of his
wife, and the history of some further adventures which
befell him. They will remind you of many an African
yarn--that with the baboons may recall an experience of
your own which I did not share. And perhaps they will do
mre than this. Perhaps they will bring back to you some
of the long past romance of days that are lost to us. The
country of which Allan Quatermain tells his tale is now,
for the most part, as well known and explored as are the
fields of we shot and trekked and galloped,

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scarcely seeing the face of civilized man, there the gold-
seeker builds his cities. The shadow of the flag of Britain
has, for a while, ceased to fall on the Transvaal plains; the
game has gone; the misty charm of the morning has
e the glare of day. All is changed. The blue gums
that we planted in the garden of the "Palatial" must be
large trees by now, and the "Palatial" itself has passed
from us. Jess sat in it waiting for her love after we were
gone. There she nursed him back to life. But Jess is dead,
and strangers own it,or perhaps it is a ruin.

For us too, Macumazahn, as for the land we loved, the
mystery and promise of the morning are outworn; the mid-
day sun burns overhead, and at times the way is weary.
Few of those we knew are left. Som are victims to battle
and murder, their bones strew the veldt; death has taken
some in a more gentle fashion; others are hidden from us,
we know not where. We might well fear to return to that

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land lest we also should see ghosts. But though we walk
apart to-day, the