How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
'She lied. Under oath. She defiled her late husband's memory—my brother's memory—by calling him a suicide…and all to protect that worthless c**** from the punishment' (III.10.39).
Although George Shepard claimed not to be all into revenge, his words here (complete with the racial epithet he drops) suggest otherwise. He's angry at his wife for protecting Ah Sook over her own husband—not just because he thinks she owed her husband more loyalty than that, but also because Sook is, in his eyes, "a worthless c****." Definitely says a lot about the racist and xenophobic attitudes that were flying around Hokitika, if he felt totally comfy saying something like that—and to a holy man (as he was talking to Devlin).