these he offered them with the graciousness of a wealthy host , and when yodren made a weak protest , saying that they had already abused his hospitality by guzzling his water and wine without asking and that they couldnt possibly consume all of his food , poor iabi looked as if he were about to cry , insisting in a torrent of objections yodren was unable to translate on the spot that it was them he waited for , and that hed rather die a hundred starving deaths before even sharing food intended for the people of the blinding stone .