Flashman on forgiveness

…the last words I heard Elphy say were: ‘It really is too bad.’ They should have been his epitaph; I raged inwardly at the time when I thought of how he had brought me to this; now in my maturer years, I have modified my view. Whereas I would have cheerfully shot him then, now I would hang, draw and quarter him for a bungling, useless, selfish, old swine. No fate could be bad enough for him.

Flashman, p.200, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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