I do not know that the Chinese system is any worse; there is a limit to the evil one despot alone can do, and if he is truly vicious he can be overthrown; a hundred corrupt members of Parliament may together do as much injustice or more, and be the less easy to uproot.

“Temeraire--Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, …”

“You are not wrong," Laurence said. He had assumed as much himself, after all, i…”

“And to crown the whole, you must needs come back and make a martyr of yourself,…”

“For his part, Temeraire had been following this exchange with cocked head and i…”