I favoured him with my fiercest frown.

Then I fell upon that venerable villain Harut, and belaboured him in Bantu, while the audience listened as intently as though they understood.
I asked him what he meant by coming here to asperse my character.

I asked him who the deuce he was.

I asked him how he came to know anything about Mameena, and finally I told him that soon or late I would be even with him, and paused exhausted.
He stood there looking for all the world like a statue of the patriarch Job as I imagine him, and when I had done, replied without moving a muscle and in English: "O Lord, Zikali, Zulu wizard, friend of mine! All great wizard friend just like all elephant and all snake.

Zikali make me know Mameena, and she tell me story and send you much love, and say she wait for you always." (More sniggers from Scroope, and still intenser interest evinced by Miss Holmes and others.) "If you like, I show you Mameena 'fore I go." (Murmurs from Miss Holmes and Miss Manners of "Oh, _please_ do!") "But that very little business, for what one long-ago lady out of so many ?" Then suddenly he broke into Bantu, and added: "A jest is a jest, Macumazana, though often there is meaning in a jest, and you shall see Mameena if you will.