All other sleights we know are tricks; but this is reality; there is the eye of your adversary in your hand; there is no mistake.

It's the real thing.

You feel you have him; that you have set your mark on him, and that you have took your satisfaction.

The throb of delight felt by a 'monokolister' is beyond all conception." "Oh heavens!" said the traveller, "Oh horror of horrors! I never heard any thing so dreadful.

Your manner of telling it, too, adds to its terrors.