The country was full of discontent and mischief, largely because England hadn’t had a real war in forty years, and only a few of us knew what fighting was like. The rest were full of rage and stupidity, and all because some papists and Turkish niggers* had quarrlled about the nailing of a star to a door in Palestine. Mind you, nothing surprises me.
Flashman at the Charge, p.14, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.
*Flashman's use of racial epitahs is a continuing problem for more enlightened, contemporary readers. The inclusion of these passages should not be taken as tacit support of his misanthropic, 19th century view of race relations.
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