Predikant

So when a spring that came down with chill rains smote Paula with a fever, and laid her weakly on her bed, the Predikant was a widower already, and walked with a face white and hard, drawn suddenly into new lines of pain and fear.

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

And when he joked anybody would laugh, even the Predikant, who was always preaching about the crackling of thorns under a pot.

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

Paula was very ill, and as he looked up he saw the Predikant, tall and still, standing at the foot of the bed, gazing on the girl's face that gave no gaze back; and there was little he could say.

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

Predikant, 'and therefore a Communion-cup is no more to me than a sardine tin, when it is out of its place.

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

Scotch smouser, who was called Peter Piper, who sold pills like a chemist, and everybody liked him and respected him, till he had his great dispute with the Predikant at

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

The Predikant, who had more fire in him than a minister should have, and more fullness of blood than is good for any man, spent the half of his life in the joy of being near to her.

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

Predikant or no Predikant, I'll have you locked up as sure as your name's Mostert. '

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

The Predikant looked on her with parted lips and clenched hands, and when he was outside again he turned to the doctor.

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

When late that night the Predikant, his face dull white in the ominous gloom, came again to the rail at the foot of the bed, his hand fell on something soft that hung there.

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

He came over one day in a great hurry to tell us that August de Villiers, the father of the Predikant at Dopfontein, was choked with

Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902