'"...We usually set out on these affairs with the intention of devoting a certain amount of patient effort in making the natives reasonably glad at the introduction of mission work; then we find ourselves involved in a much bigger effort to make them reasonably sorry for having killed the missionaries."'
from a play entitled The Watched Pot (Act I), in The Square Egg and other sketches by Saki
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