The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: and the meat on the table.
"He's a God-fearing man, and one who knows how to behave himself," said the
Boer-woman as he went out at the door. "If he's ugly, did not the Lord
make him? And are we to laugh at the Lord's handiwork? It is better to be
ugly and good than pretty and bad; though of course it's nice when one is
both," said Tant Sannie, looking complacently at the picture on the wall.
In the afternoon the German and Bonaparte sat before the door of the cabin.
Both smoked in complete silence--Bonaparte with a book in his hands and his
eyes half closed; the German puffing vigorously, and glancing up now and
again at the serene blue sky overhead.
"Supposing--you--you, in fact, made the remark to me," burst forth the
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