But I am cleverer.
I shall soon take his seat, thus"-- and he rose and seated himself in the General's chair--"and he will go down a step and take mine.

Ay, and then I will reign.

My tongue shall be honey and my hand iron.

I will pass over the land like a storm.

I will drive these English out with the help of the Kafirs, and then I will kill the Kafirs and take their country.
Ah!"-- and his eyes flashed and his nostrils dilated as he said it to himself--"then life will be worth living! What a thing is power! What a thing it is to be able to destroy! Take that Englishman, my rival: to-day he is well and strong; in three days he will be gone utterly, and I--I shall have sent him away.