The governor -general in Batavia was an emperor; the commander at the Cape, a distant functionary. As he looked at that tiny speck so far away, it was as though nothing in his life had ever mattered but that light. The festivities had to be brief, for the clan must move on to safer areas, but in the moving, free burghers at the Cape were beginning to look beyond the perimeters set for them at the time of their original grants.
Dougless looked at the women around them, sitting at their embroidery frames. She was an endless source of material for laughter among the relatives. ” She took a deep breath. Earls could wear sable, but barons could wear only the arctic fox.
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