The doctor worships you but who else knows?
What do you do it for, my friend ?" "Because it is my duty," was the calm reply.
"Duty! But why can't you do your duty in your own country, and live a man's life, and hold the hands of white men, and look into the eyes of white women ?" "I go where I am needed most," Von Ragastein answered.

"I do not enjoy drilling natives, I do not enjoy passing the years as an outcast from the ordinary joys of human life.

But I follow my star." "And I my will-o'-the-wisp," Dominey laughed mockingly.

"The whole thing's as plain as a pikestaff.

You may be a dull dog--you always were on the serious side--but you're a man of principle.