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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: flatly, I'm not going to fall out with it. I came here to make money, and
I mean to make it! If other people like to run their heads against stone
walls, let them: but they mustn't expect me to follow them. This isn't a
country where a man can say what he thinks."
The Englishman rested his elbows on the ground. "And the Union Jack is
supposed to be flying over us."
"Yes, with a black bar across it for the Company," laughed the Colonial.
"Do you ever have the nightmare?" asked the Englishman suddenly.
"I? Oh yes, sometimes"; he looked curiously at his companion; "when I've
eaten too much, I get it."
"I always have it since I came up here," said the Englishman. "It is that
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