Sunday, 28 January 2007

Honest Scud East

But he was soft: one of Arnold's sturdy fools, manly little chaps, of course, and full of virtue, the kind schoolmasters love. Yes. he was a fool then, and a fool twenty years later, when he died in the dust at Cawnpore with a Sepoy's bayonet in his back. Honest Scud East; that was all that his gallant goodness did for him.




Flashman
, p. 15, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.



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