I have seen it.' The big man laughed.

'You see I am not forgotten,' he said to his friend, and then to us: 'So I treat my enemies, and so will Germany treat hers.

You, too, if you fail me by a fraction of an inch.' And he laughed loud again.
There was something horrible in that boisterousness.

Peter was watching him from below his eyelids, as I have seen him watch a lion about to charge.
He flung himself on a chair, put his elbows on the table, and thrust his face forward.
'You have come from a damned muddled show.

If I had Maritz in my power I would have him flogged at a wagon's end.