He said yes by dropping his eyelids and thrusting his chin forward.

He spoke with childish arrogance strangely at variance with the subservient position he occupied beneath the veranda.

He, with his many followers, was lord and master of Balesuna village.

But the white man, without followers, was lord and master of Berande--ay, and on occasion, single-handed, had made himself lord and master of Balesuna village as well.

Seelee did not like to remember that episode.