If my lord is killed, I am ready to die with him.

He may count on me to do anything that he requires, even to go with him into the Dervish camp.

I might go as a slave, my lord." "That would not do, Zaki.

I do not wish to travel as a person who could ride attended by a slave.

People might say, 'Who is this man?
Where does he come from?
How is it that no one knows a man who rides with a slave ?' "My great object will be to enter the camp quietly, as one who has but left half an hour before.