He was looking with eyes like gimlets at a big bullock of a soldier that was leading the tormenters.
"Show me something would surprise me," he was ordering.

"Be damned to this old woman's entertainment!" says he.

"As a magician," says he, "you're the worst I ever saw.

If you're a magician," says he, "I'm a rabbit." And there was a roar at that, because he was known to be a very brave man.
"Show me a magic trick," says he.
Says the Hindu: "Maybe you'd wish you hadn't seen it." "Be damned to that!" says the big fellow.
"Look at this man well," the Hindu told the room.

"Look at him well." He throws a handful of powder in the fire and chants in his foreign language.