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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: stranger's large dark eyes watched the fire almost as though he heard
nothing.
"I shouldn't have minded so much," said Peter after a while, "though no man
likes to have his woman taken away from him; but she was going to have a
kid in a month or two--and so was the little one for anything I know; she
looked like it! I expect they did away with it before it came; they've no
hearts, these niggers; they'd think nothing of doing that with a white
man's child. They've no hearts; they'd rather go back to a black man,
however well you've treated them. It's all right if you get them quite
young and keep them away from their own people; but if once a nigger
woman's had a nigger man and had children by him, you might as well try to
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