Indeed, I think that I will go back with Marama and explain the truth." "I never before knew anybody who was so anxious to be cooked and eaten," remarked Bickley.

"Moreover, you are too late, for the canoe is a hundred yards away by now, and you shan't have ours.

Remember the Pauline maxims, old fellow, which you are so fond of quoting, and be all things to all men, and another that is more modern, that when you are at Rome, you must do as the Romans do; also a third, that necessity has no law, and for the matter of that, a fourth, that all is fair in love and war." "I am sure, Bickley, that Paul never meant his words to bear the debased sense which you attribute to them--" began Bastin, but at this point I hustled him off to light a fire--a process at which I pointed out he had shown himself an expert.
We slept that night under the overhanging rock just to one side of the cave, not in the mouth, because of the draught which drew in and out of the great place.

In that soft and balmy clime this was no hardship, although we lacked blankets.

And yet, tired though I was, I could not rest as I should have done.