Цитаты из произведения Death in the East

There it was: the olive branch, extended once again by the Indian; because it was in his nature, because he was a man of conscience, and because in India an Englishman could never be the one to apologise.

Look around you, Sam. This past year, while you were in an opium haze, the country out there burned. It has changed. Even the common man is waking up to the insults of British rule. If the best of you cannot treat an Indian with dignity, then what hope is there?

We’ve known each other for almost three years. I have saved your life and stood by you in times when no sahib did. You call yourself my friend, yet you don’t even make the effort to call me by my real name?

Not for the first time, I was forced to contemplate the nature of my compatriots. We liked to think of ourselves as a noble race, the architects of the greatest empire the world had ever known, but our behaviour was still rooted in the narrow-minded mentality of that wet little island whence we came. The truth was we…

You fought in the war, Captain. After four years of death and destruction, would it have been enough to merely accept the German surrender and all go home? No, we needed some form of vengeance, of reparations, something to make the pain and the suffering worthwhile.