How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Page)
Quote #4
Power went to Statics's head. He felt like the Pope in his bulletproof jeep; he learnt how to atone/for their poverty, waving from the parted door/of the gliding Comet, past neglected sections,/nodding, dipping two fingers stuck with a power/that parted the sea of their roaring affections. (XX.ii.106-107)
Quote #5
"We've no work, Helen."/"Is not work I looking for."/Pride edged that voice; she'd honed her arrogance/on Maud's nerves when she worked here, but there was sorrow/in that rudeness. (XXIII.iii.124)
Maud can't even when it comes to Helen, who seems brazen and opportunistic to her. But there's something more to Helen than her usual arrogance and it acts on Maud's anger. The result: Helen gets a fiver out of it and Maud continues to fume.
Quote #6
"A name means something. The qualities desired in a son,/and even a girl-child; so even the shadows who called/you expected one virtue; since every name is a blessing,/since I am remembering the hope I had for you as a child./Unless the sound means nothing. Then you would be nothing./Did they think you were nothing in that other kingdom?" (XXV.iii.137)
Afolabe is not impressed by Achille's indifference to his own name. His speech here is meant to instill some pride into his son, who has been numb to the importance of his ancestral identity.