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Politically the news was promising. The world awaited them: Isabella, lovely and tragic in her wheelchair,and her daughters bubbling with la She was alone, and in thecentre of her desk stood the ivory and brass telephone. It was written in Afrikaans, the infant language still striving forrecognition.