How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"He would have done justice. He would have protected. About the age of forty he would have shocked the authorities. No lullaby has ever occurred to me capable of singing him to rest." (9b.7)
Bernard, too, thinks about Percival's potential to exert authority and views it positively. However, it is interesting and notable that Bernard imagines Percival shocking "the authorities" at around forty, suggesting that he thinks Percival might have ended up being anti-authoritarian after all.