'What profit to kill men ?' 'Very little--as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.

I do not speak without knowledge who have seen the land from Delhi south awash with blood.' 'What madness was that, then ?' 'The Gods, who sent it for a plague, alone know.

A madness ate into all the Army, and they turned against their officers.

That was the first evil, but not past remedy if they had then held their hands.

But they chose to kill the Sahibs' wives and children.