`` captain laurence , '' hammond said desperately , `` i think you forget yourself-your highness , i hope you will forgive- '' `` mr. hammond , i forget nothing , '' laurence said , `` but i will not stand by and serve as audience for a venture so ill-advised as to wreck all hopes of the preservation of this colony : if that , your highness , '' he added , turning back to the prince , `` and not some temporary victory is your desire , you have only one real avenue which i can see : not merely to make peace with the tswana and send them hence , but to persuade them to settle here among you . ''