It is done to oblige some powerful Rajah, and as I have said, it is only on a very few occasions that Europeans have ever seen them.

Well, we may as well go in to the ladies.

I don't fancy any of them would be inclined to come out onto the veranda again this evening." No one was indeed inclined even for talk, and in a very short time the party broke up and returned home.
"Come and smoke a pipe with me, Bathurst, before you turn in," the Doctor said, as they went out.

"I don't think either of us will be likely to go to sleep for some time.

What is your impression of all this ?" "My impression, certainly, is that it is entirely unaccountable by any laws with which we are acquainted, Doctor." "That is just my idea, and always has been since I first saw any really good juggling out here.