Your act's the next on the programme.

Buck up and go at it like a man." "I can't, senor, I can't!" almost wailed the chevalier.

"My nerve is gone.

Never, if I live to be a thousand, shall I forget that awful moment, that appalling 'smile.' I tell you, there is wizardry in the thing; the beast is bewitched.

My work in the arena is done--done for ever, senor.