I believe he was as straight as his sword.

The governors doubtless issued these orders, but there were plenty besides Brandeis to suggest them.

Every wandering clerk from the firm's office, every plantation manager, would be dinning the same story in the native ear.

And here again the initial blunder hung about the neck of Brandeis, a ton's weight.

The natives, as well as the whites, had seen their premier masquerading on a stool in the office; in the eyes of the natives, as well as in those of the whites, he must always have retained the mark of servitude from that ill-judged passage; and they would be inclined to look behind and above him, to the great house of _Misi Ueba_.
The government was like a vista of puppets.