Everything seemed to me new; and as I sat by my daughter's bedside, when she lay sick with the fever, I had to think it all out again.

Then I saw things in another light.

I saw that, though the white men were masterful and often hard, though they had little regard for our customs, and viewed our beliefs as superstitious, and scoffed at the notion of there being powers of which they had no knowledge, yet that they were a great people.

Other conquerors, many of them, India has had, but none who have made it their first object to care for the welfare of the people at large.

The Feringhees have wrung nothing from the poor to be spent in pomp and display; they permit no tyranny or ill doing; under them the poorest peasant tills his fields in peace.
"I have been obliged to see all this, and I feel now that their destruction would be a frightful misfortune.