If I could have known what he had in store for us, I would have leaped and shouted.

Yet, no, sahib; that is not true.

If he had told me what was coming, I would never have believed.

Can the sahib imagine, for instance, what was to happen next?
"Ye are as good as dead men!" he said, coming back to the center and facing all the men.

"Consider!" said he.