You feel like defying me, don't you?
Just so; but your defiance is useless.

Did you not come here against your will?
Are you not staying here now against your will?
Look here, my man, you showed your hand immediately you came, and you've been playing your game without knowing the trump cards.

It looked very innocent to be mesmerized last night, didn't it?
Oh, mesmerism is a vulgar affair; but there was more than mesmerism realized last night.

I played three trump cards last night, Mr.Justin Blake.

The Egyptian story was one, the thought-reading was the second, the animal and mental magnetism was the third.