How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
These little boys, who wandered about on the farm in the company of their fathers' herds of goats and sheep, looking up grazing for them, did in a way form a link between the life of my civilized house and the life of the wild. (1.3.21)
The herdboys are among the only people, besides the Baroness herself, who have access to both the grand landscape and the home. Most of the servants are houseboys, always in the house, while most of the squatters are never invited in. The Baroness seems to like this connection to the land that the herdboys represent, as if they anchor her house in Africa.
Quote #2
It also seemed to me that the free union between my house and the antelope was a rare, honourable thing. (1.4.45)
Lulu, the tame antelope who brings her babies to visit every time she gets the chance, represents utterly wild Africa. She is, after all, a wild animal. Her unpredictability is part of her charm though, and her sharing the house with the humans lets them feel like Africa has blessed them and allowed them to live there.
Quote #3
The old men sitting at my house made me uneasy; in old times people must have had that feeling when they thought it likely that a witch of the neighbourhood had fixed her mind upon them, or was at that very moment carrying a wax-child under her clothes, to be baptized with their own name. (2.2.5)
The council of elders, who have only come to get the Baroness to help pass judgment on the case of the shooting, seem threatening to her. They are at her home, which is a big invasion of privacy. Having them in her space makes her feel like the victim of an evil spell, like the home were a part of her that was being invaded.