I'll not give up one jot of the right I've got in you, little as it is--I've taken the right to hold you here and talk to you.

But when you say you'll not listen to me, then you do run against my side of it, my man's side of it; and I tell you once more, I'm the owner of this place.

I live here.

It's mine.

I rule here, over free and thrall." With rude strength and pride he swept an arm widely around him, covering half the circle of the valley.