Chapter 10 • On Ledra street
The second day at school passed peacefully enough. But perhaps not quite quickly enough for Dimitri, despite the fact that the two last lessons were dedicated to sport. What was spoiling his mood was that when the boys were divided into teams, he found himself, without quite knowing how, in the “yellows”, in other words those who wore yellow colours on their sports uniform and who had Lord Beaconsfield, in other words Disraeli, as their eponymous hero, the very man who had secured the British occupation of Cyprus. Not that he would have preferred the other Lords - indiscriminate slaughterers of black, coloured, white Irish, Indian, Sudanese and Boer - Wolseley and Kitchener, after whom two of the other four teams were named, but he would clearly have felt more
