Vicious amusement

I had already given a good deal of thought to how I should conduct myself in the army. I was bent on as much fun and vicious amusement as I could get - my contemporaries, who praise God on Sundays and sneak off to child-brothels during the week would denounce it piously as vicious, anyway..."




Flashman, p. 30, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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Flashman, contemporaries, hypocrisy.