Violet Quotes

“What did you tell Cornichet?" he asked suddenly.
.."Nothing."
"I assume they only just started on you."
She didn't reply.
"What did they want to know?"
"What right do you have to take me prisoner?" she countered. "I'm no enemy of the English. I help the partisans, not the French."
"As long as there's some profit in it for you, as I understand it," he said, his voice a whip crack in the dim hovel. "Don't pretend to patriotic loyalty..."
"And just what business is it of yours?" she demanded furiously..."I've done you no harm. I don't interfere with the English army. You trample all over< i> my country, behaving like God-given conquering heroes. All complacence and pomposity-"
..."The blood of Englishmen has watered this damnable peninsula for four interminable years, doing the work of your countrymen, trying to save you and your country from Napoleon's heel. I have lost more friends than I can count in the interests of your miserable land, and you speak against those men at your peril. Do you understand that?"
..."The English have their own reasons for being here," she retorted...England couldn't survive if Napoleon held Spain and Portugal. He'd close their ports to English trading, and you'd all starve to death."
They both knew she spoke the unvarnished truth....”
― Jane Feather, Violet

“What did you tell Cornichet?" he asked suddenly.
.."Nothing."
"I assume they only just started on you."
She didn't reply.
"What did they want to know?"
"What right do you have to take me prisoner?" she countered. "I'm no enemy of the English. I help the partisans, not the French."
"As long as there's some profit in it for you, as I understand it," he said, his voice a whip crack in the dim hovel. "Don't pretend to patriotic loyalty..."
"And just what business is it of yours?" she demanded furiously..."I've done you no harm. I don't interfere with the English army. You trample all over i> my country, behaving like God-given conquering heroes. All complacence and pomposity-"
..."The blood of Englishmen has watered this damnable peninsula for four interminable years, doing the work of your countrymen, trying to save you and your country from Napoleon's heel. I have lost more friends than I can count in the interests of your miserable land, and you speak against those men at your peril. Do you understand that?"
..."The English have their own reasons for being here," she retorted...England couldn't survive if Napoleon held Spain and Portugal. He'd close their ports to English trading, and you'd all starve to death."
They both knew she spoke the unvarnished truth....
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― Jane Feather, Violet