...stopped for a moment and picked some wild flowers from the hedge by the road-side. ' ' How beautiful they are!" he said, simply, showing his little nosegay...not always been in England?" I said. "No. I was born nnd partly brought up in one of our colonies. My father was an Englishman, but my mother — We are...

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...moment Jennings lets down his guard and allows part of his secret past to escape when he tells Blake, "I was born, and partly brought up, in one of our...away from our subject, Mr. Blake; and it is my fault" (420). Jennings is, it would seem, the bastard child of the British Empire. But to speak of the empire...

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...symbolizes the transgression of the boundary between colonizer and colonized that permitted Jennings' birth: "I was born, and partly brought up, in one of our...— We are straying away from our subject, Mr. Blake . . ." (411). This passage shows how Jennings, who blends the identities of English "gentleman" (410)...

...flowers from the hedge by the roadside. 'How beautiful they are!' he said, simply, showing his litde nosegay to me. 'And how few people in England seem to admire them as they deserve!' Tou have not always been in England?' I said. 'No. I was born, and partly brought up, in one of our...

...his "dreamy brown eyes" to English wildflowers and wistfully observes, "How beautiful they are! ... And how few people in England seem to admire them as they deserve!" (420). These "dreamy brown eyes," and his gentle demeanor, and self-characterization as "female" show...

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