All this and more went through my mind in very few seconds.
'All right, Mackenzie,' I said, 'you can tell the man that I will exchange myself against Flossie, only I stipulate that she shall be safely in this house before they kill me.' 'Eh ?' said Sir Henry and Good simultaneously.

'That you don't.' 'No, no,' said Mr Mackenzie.

'I will have no man's blood upon my hands.

If it please God that my daughter should die this awful death, His will be done.

You are a brave man (which I am not by any means) and a noble man, Quatermain, but you shall not go.' 'If nothing else turns up I shall go,' I said decidedly.
'This is an important matter,' said Mackenzie, addressing the Lygonani, 'and we must think it over.