938l

Updated: June 25, 2025

A certain comic relief was immediately afterwards given to so grave an episode by the presentation of a bill to Great Britain for 1,677,938l. 3s. 3d. the greater part of which was under the heading of moral and intellectual damage. It is to be feared that even the 3s. 3d. remains still unpaid. The raid was past and the reform movement was past, but the causes which produced them both remained.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct