You must either ask Mavovo, and very nicely, or we shall all be killed.

_I_ don't mind much, for I should rather like to begin again a little younger somewhere else, but just think what a noise Sammy will make!" and turning he crept out as he had crept in.
"Here's a nice position," I groaned to Stephen when he had gone.

"I, a white man, who, in spite of some coincidences with which I am acquainted, know that all this Kaffir magic is bosh am to beg a savage to tell me something of which he _must_ be ignorant.

That is, unless we educated people have got hold of the wrong end of the stick altogether.
It is humiliating; it isn't Christian, and I'm hanged if I'll do it!" "I dare say you will be--hanged I mean--whether you do it or whether you don't," replied Stephen with his sweet smile.

"But I say, old fellow, how do you know it is all bosh?
We are told about lots of miracles which weren't bosh, and if miracles ever existed, why can't they exist now?
But there, I know what you mean and it is no use arguing.