Else because of the beauty of a woman that weareth as a garment of fur shalt thou be even as I am, and perchance with more cause.

I have said.' Throughout this long and eloquent address Good had been perfectly silent, but when the tale began to shape itself so aptly to his own case, he coloured up, and when he learnt that what had passed between him and Sorais had been overseen he was evidently much distressed.

And now, when at last he spoke, it was in a tone of humility quite foreign to him.
'I must say,' he said, with a bitter little laugh, 'that I scarcely thought that I should live to be taught my duty by a Zulu; but it just shows what we can come to.

I wonder if you fellows can understand how humiliated I feel, and the bitterest part of it is that I deserve it all.

Of course I should have handed Sorais over to the guard, but I could not, and that is a fact.