We should be ruled by our native lords; but as soon as the white man was gone the old quarrels would break out, and the country would be red with blood.

I did not see this before, because I had only looked at it with the eyes of my own caste; now I see it with the eyes of one whose daughter has been saved from a tiger by a white man.

I cannot love those I have been taught to hate, but I can see the benefit their rule has given to India.
"But what can I do now?
I am in the stream, and I must go with it.

I know not what I wish or what I would do.

Six months ago I felt certain.
Now I doubt.