When India's women finally break purdah and enter politics openly, we shall see more cruelty and savagery, for that reason, than either the French or Russian terrors had to show.
I was bruised and actually bleeding in a dozen places when they hustled me down a corridor at last, and crowded me into a narrow anteroom, where the two harridans who had handled me hardest had the worst of it.

I gave them what in elephant stables is known as the "squeeze," crushing them to right and left against projecting walls; whereat they screamed, and I heard the reproving voice of the Mahatma just behind me: "Violence is the folly of beasts.

Patience and strength are one!" But they were not sticking pins into his ribs and thighs to humiliate and discourage him.

He was being led by either hand, and cooed to softly in the sort of way that members of the Dorcas Guild would treat a bishop.

It was easy enough for him to feel magnanimous.