She did not look me down, for there was neither challenge nor antagonism in her eyes--only fascination.

I was loth to admit this defeat by one small woman, and my eyes, turning aside, lighted on the disgraceful rout of my comrades and the trailing _ki-sang_ and gave me the pretext.

I clapped my hands in the Asiatic fashion when one gives command.
"Let be!" I thundered in their own language, and in the form one addressee underlings.
Oh, I had a chest and a throat, and could bull-roar to the hurt of ear- drums.

I warrant so loud a command had never before cracked the sacred air of the Emperor's palace.
The great room was aghast.

The women were startled, and pressed toward one another as for safety.