My friend, you are teaching me to respect your country, not by what you brag, but by what you do.[pg 083]
PIKE
How's that.
VASILI
[significantly]
I see how a son of that great democracy can apply himself to a dirty machine, while his eyes are full of visions of one of its beautiful daughters.
PIKE
[slowly and sadly, peering into the machine]
Doc, there's sand in your gear-box.
VASILI