As soon as I was able to walk, I began to work with my father, and as I grew up he initiated me in the secrets of our craft, which we may never divulge." "No, I know they are a mystery.

Many of your tricks can be done by our conjurers at home, but there are some that have never been solved." "I have been offered, more than once, large sums by English sahibs to tell them how some of the feats were done, but I could not; we are bound by terrible oaths, and; in no case has a juggler proved false to them.
Were one to do so he would be slain without mercy, and his fate in the next world would be terrible; forever and forever his soul would pass through the bodies of the foulest and lowest creatures, and there would be no forgiveness for him.

I would give my life for the sahib, but even to him I would not divulge our mysteries." In a few minutes they came to the first village beyond the jungle.

As they approached it Bathurst checked his horse and lifted the girl down.
She took his hand and pressed her forehead to it.
"I shall see you tomorrow, then, Rujub," he said, and shaking the reins, went on at a canter.
"That is a new character for me to come out in," he said bitterly; "I do not know myself--I, of all men.

But there was no bravery in it; it never occurred to me to be afraid; I just thrashed him off as I should beat off a dog who was killing a lamb; there was no noise, and it is noise that frightens me; if the brute had roared I should assuredly have run; I know it would have been so; I could not have helped it to have saved my life.