“It's true, you know, Mark. There is nobody so virtuous as a reformed whore. We were the great robber barons-Rhodes and Robertson, Bailey and Barnato, Duff, Charleywood and Sean Courtney. We seized the land and then ripped the gold out of the earth, we hunted where we pleased, and burned the finest timber for our campfires, every man with a rifle in his hand and shoes on his feet was a king, prepared to fight anybody, Boer, Briton or Zulu, for the right of plunder.”