Only do not speak to me again like that, lest we should quarrel." As I said this I saw a look of relief appear on his face, of very great relief.
"I pray your pardon, my lord Macumazahn," he said, seizing my hand, "but, oh! there is a hole in my heart.

I think that Mameena means to play me false, and now that has happened with yonder dog, Masapo, which will make her father hate me." "If you will take my advice, Saduko," I replied earnestly, "you will let this Mameena fall out of the hole in your heart; you will forget her name; you will have done with her.

Ask me not why." "Perhaps there is no need, O Macumazana.

Perhaps she has been making love to you, and you have turned her away, as, being what you are, and my friend, of course you would do." (It is rather inconvenient to be set upon such a pedestal at times, but I did not attempt to assent or to deny anything, much less to enter into explanations.) "Perhaps all this has happened," he continued, "or perhaps it is she who has sent for Masapo the Hog.

I do not ask, because if you know you will not tell me.