So he evidently reckoned himself above it, and the Indian who can do that has met and overcome more tyranny and terrors than the West knows anything about.
I wish I could make exactly clear what happened when I took his outstretched hand.
His fingers closed on mine with a grip like marble.

There are few men who are stronger than I am; I can outlift a stage professional; yet I could no more move his hand or pull mine free than if he had been a bronze image with my hand set solid in the casting.
"That is for your own good," he said pleasantly, letting go at last.
"That other man knows better, but you might have been so unwise as to try using violence." "I'm glad you had that experience," said King in a low voice, as I went back to the window-seat.

"Don't let yourself be bewildered by it.
There's an explanation for everything.

They know something that we don't, that's all.".