‘How will we look back on this?’ he mused. ‘When we are old, and in our country palaces, and the bold lads of a new day are elbowing for power in the chancelleries? I wonder.’ He shook his head. ‘I think I will wear leather breeches and allow myself to be laughed at in Stettin wool market, and sell two thalers cheaper to anyone who calls me “baron”. And you, Flashman – you will sit in your club in St James and grow fat on port and your memories. But we will have lived, by God! We will have fought! We will have won! Is it not something to have moved great affairs, and shaped the course of time?’
Royal Flash, p.136, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.
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