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Mrs. Lackersteen
Mr. Macgregor, the Deputy Commissioner in Kyauktada, Burma, is a big man in his 40s with a “puggy” face and glasses. He tends to talk in a joking, facetious way, and he tells repetitive, boring anecdotes that the other British people in Burma usually interrupt. During U Po Kyin’s slander campaign against Dr. Veraswami, U Po Kyin plants an article in an anti-imperial newspaper insinuating that Mr. Macgregor has fathered multiple children by Burmese girls and then spreads rumors that Dr. Veraswami wrote it. Shortly after John Flory’s suicide, Mr. Macgregor proposes to Flory’s ex-sweetheart, 22-year-old Elizabeth Lackersteen, whom Mr. Macgregor likes because she doesn’t interrupt his anecdotes. Elizabeth accepts him, and they have a “very happy,” conventional, narrow-minded marriage.
Mr. Macgregor Quotes in Burmese Days
The Burmese Days quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Macgregor or refer to Mr. Macgregor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 22
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“Order the police to open fire at once!” shouted Mr. Macgregor from the other side. “You have my authority.”
“And tell them to aim low! No firing over their heads. Shoot to kill. In the guts for choice!”
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Chapter 25
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Her servants live in terror of her, though she speaks no Burmese. She has an exhaustive knowledge of the Civil List, gives charming little dinner-parties and knows how to put the wives of subordinate officials in their places—in short, she fulfills with complete success the position for which Nature had designed her from the first, that of a burra memsahib.
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Mr. Macgregor Quotes in Burmese Days
The Burmese Days quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Macgregor or refer to Mr. Macgregor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 22
Quotes
“Order the police to open fire at once!” shouted Mr. Macgregor from the other side. “You have my authority.”
“And tell them to aim low! No firing over their heads. Shoot to kill. In the guts for choice!”
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 25
Quotes
Her servants live in terror of her, though she speaks no Burmese. She has an exhaustive knowledge of the Civil List, gives charming little dinner-parties and knows how to put the wives of subordinate officials in their places—in short, she fulfills with complete success the position for which Nature had designed her from the first, that of a burra memsahib.
