The bond must be kept; thou shalt not play fast and loose.

Money must be found; the expedition must go.

But if thy purpose is now Harrik's purpose, then Europe should know, and Egypt also should know.

I have been thy right hand, Effendina; I will not be thy old shoe, to be cast aside at thy will." In all the days of his life David had never flamed out as he did now.
Passionate as his words were, his manner was strangely quiet, but his white and glistening face and his burning eyes showed how deep was his anger.
As he spoke, Kaid sank upon the divan.

Never had he been challenged so.
With his own people he had ever been used to cringing and abasement, and he had played the tyrant, and struck hard and cruelly, and he had been feared; but here, behind David's courteous attitude, there was a scathing arraignment of his conduct which took no count of consequence.
In other circumstances his vanity would have shrunk under this whip of words, but his native reason and his quick humour would have justified David.