Hors d'Oeuvres For Hire

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Dixon makes this straightforward announcement and explanation of
his pacifist stance, when challenged to
fight:

"Did they tell You I was a Quaker, Sir, and would not fight?"
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This is no announcement and explanation. It is a question! Dixon
is wondering if Fabian had been told this. Then read down a few
more lines and read Dixon's thoughts. " -- if so, they are
quizzing with you, Sir, -- in fact I am a Transported Felon of the
most Desperate Stripe, to whom, in the great Feast of Sin, Murder
is but an Hors d'Oeuvre...?"

Not exactly Gandhi.