ROVERS From Jowler I wanted nothing more.

Such matters were too grand for him.

He had beaten the dog of Hercules, who had only brought the purple dye--a thing requiring skill and art and taste to give it value.

But gold does well without all these, and better in their absence.

From handling many little nuggets, and hearkening to Suan Isco's tales of treachery, theft, and murder done by white men for the sake of this, I knew that here I had found enough to cost the lives of fifty men.
At present, however, I was not possessed with dread so much as I was with joy, and even a secret exultation, at the power placed in my hands.
For I was too young to moralize or attempt philosophy.