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Mr. Candy
A daring, adventurous, aloof Anglo-Indian (Englishman raised in India) who spends most of his time traveling around Asia but, when in England, intervenes frequently to help investigators and the Verinder family understand and fend off the three Indians who have come to take the Diamond back from England. From translating the Indians’ language to predicting their next move, he embodies an archetype of the British colonist who studies and respects Indian culture only insofar as it allows him to outsmart Indians. His swashbuckling travel stories also point to British ideals of masculinity. His most important role comes at the very end of the book: he narrates the final section of the Epilogue, in which he follows a flood of Hindu pilgrims to Somnauth and watches the three Brahmins return the Moonstone to its rightful place in the statue of their deity.
Mr. Murthwaite Quotes in The Moonstone
The The Moonstone quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Murthwaite or refer to Mr. Murthwaite. 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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The Discovery of the Truth 2: 3
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“In the name of the Regent of the Night, whose seat is on the Antelope, whose arms embrace the four corners of the earth.
Brothers, turn your faces to the south, and come to me in the street of many noises, which leads down to the muddy river.
The reason is this.
My own eyes have seen it.”
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Epilogue: 3
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The curtain between the trees was drawn aside, and the shrine was disclosed to view.
There, raised high on a throne—seated on his typical antelope, with his four arms stretching towards the four corners of the earth—there, soared above us, dark and awful in the mystic light of heaven, the god of the Moon. And there, in the forehead of the deity, gleamed the yellow Diamond, whose splendour had last shone on me in England, from the bosom of a woman's dress!
Yes! after the lapse of eight centuries, the Moonstone looks forth once more, over the walls of the sacred city in which its story first began. How it has found its way back to its wild native land—by what accident, or by what crime, the Indians regained possession of their sacred gem, may be in your knowledge, but is not in mine. You have lost sight of it in England, and (if I know anything of this people) you have lost sight of it for ever.
So the years pass, and repeat each other; so the same events revolve in the cycles of time. What will be the next adventures of the Moonstone? Who can tell!
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Mr. Murthwaite Quotes in The Moonstone
The The Moonstone quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Murthwaite or refer to Mr. Murthwaite. 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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The Discovery of the Truth 2: 3
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“In the name of the Regent of the Night, whose seat is on the Antelope, whose arms embrace the four corners of the earth.
Brothers, turn your faces to the south, and come to me in the street of many noises, which leads down to the muddy river.
The reason is this.
My own eyes have seen it.”
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Epilogue: 3
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The curtain between the trees was drawn aside, and the shrine was disclosed to view.
There, raised high on a throne—seated on his typical antelope, with his four arms stretching towards the four corners of the earth—there, soared above us, dark and awful in the mystic light of heaven, the god of the Moon. And there, in the forehead of the deity, gleamed the yellow Diamond, whose splendour had last shone on me in England, from the bosom of a woman's dress!
Yes! after the lapse of eight centuries, the Moonstone looks forth once more, over the walls of the sacred city in which its story first began. How it has found its way back to its wild native land—by what accident, or by what crime, the Indians regained possession of their sacred gem, may be in your knowledge, but is not in mine. You have lost sight of it in England, and (if I know anything of this people) you have lost sight of it for ever.
So the years pass, and repeat each other; so the same events revolve in the cycles of time. What will be the next adventures of the Moonstone? Who can tell!
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