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Quote #10
Instead she commanded, "Say 'splendid'!" I was both baffled and somewhat insulted by the request. It reminded me of the way I was taught multiplication tables as a child, repeating after the master, sitting cross-legged, without shoes or pencils, on the floor of my one-room Tollygunge school. It also reminded me of my wedding, when I had repeated endless Sanskrit verses after the priest, verses I barely understood, which joined me to my wife. I said nothing. (TFC 29-30)
The narrator's meetings with Mrs. Croft are also good images of encounters of very different cultures. Although even with this woman so different from him, he sees similarities to other events in his life. There are "Mrs. Crofts" everywhere.