You acted in a fashion that might have brought his lord, who was daring a desperate deed, to a hideous doom." "And what do I care about his lord's desperate deeds, Physician?
I see that you set store by such things, and think those who accomplish them great and wonderful.

Well, we do not.

There is no savage among the barbarous Fung would not do all that your Orme does, and more, just because he is a savage.

We who are civilized, we who are cultivated, we who are wise, know better.

Our lives were given us to enjoy, not to throw away or to lose at the sword's point, and, therefore, no doubt, you would call us cowards." "Yet, Prince, those who bear that title of coward which you hold one of honour, are apt to perish 'at the sword's point.' The Fung wait without your gates, O Prince." "And therefore, O Gentile, we hire you to fight the Fung.