King Leopold's Ghost Quotes

Adam Hochschild
This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of King Leopold's Ghost.

King Leopold's Ghost Quotes

Adam Hochschild
This Study Guide consists of approximately 41 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of King Leopold's Ghost.
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"One of the more revealing episodes Stanley describes or invents took place soon after he arrived in New Orleans, when he was sharing a bed in a boarding house with Dick Heaton, another young man who had come over from Liverpool as a deckhand. 'He was so modest he would not retire by candle-light, and...when he got into bed he lay on the verge of it, far removed from contact with me. When I rose in the morning I found that he was not undressed.' One day Stanley awoke and, looking at Dick Heaton asleep at his side, was 'amazed to see what I took to be two tumours on his breast...I sat up...and cried out...'I know! I know! Dick, you are a girl.'" That evening Dick, who by then had confessed to being Alice, was gone. 'She was never seen, or...

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