Your friends proposed to send us to the trenches, but we have already had too much of that work and we intend to find Wassmuss and take part with him.

Let your business be to obey me implicitly and to help us reach Wassmuss, and on the day we reach our goal you shall go free with this paper given back to you.

Disobey me, and you shall sample unheard-of methods of repentance! Do we understand each other ?" "I understand you!" said Tugendheim.
"I, too, wish to understand," said Ranjoor Singh.
"It is a bargain," said Tugendheim.

But I noticed they did not shake hands after European fashion, although I think Tugendheim would have been willing.

He was a hearty man in his way, given to bullying, but also to quick forgetfulness; and I will say this much for him, that although he was ever on the lookout for some way of breaking his agreement, he kept it loyally enough while a way was lacking.