"That is as God may direct it," he said.

"Who are ye but a people of yesterday, while the Bada-Mawidi is as old as the rocks.

The English were here before you, and we before the English.

It is right that youth should reverence age." "That is one proverb," said the man, "but there are others, and in especial one to the effect that the man without a sword should bow before his brother who has one.

In this game we are the people with the sword, my friends." The hillman shrugged his shoulders.