What I have promised I will keep.

What I have given I give, neither greater nor less by the weight of a hair." "So be it, O King," answered Marut with his usual smile, which nothing ever seemed to disturb.

"Only remember that if those terms are broken either in the letter or in the spirit, especially the spirit" (that is the best rendering I can give of his word), "the manifold curses of the Child will fall upon you and yours.

Yes, though you kill us all by treachery, still those curses will fall." "May Jana take the Child and all who worship it," exclaimed the king with evident irritation.
"In the end, O King, Jana will take the Child and its followers--or the Child will take Jana and his followers.

Which of these things must happen is known to the Child alone, and perchance to its prophets.
Meanwhile, for every one of those of the Child I think that three of the followers of Jana, or more, lie dead upon this field.