Friday, 4 September 2009

A Baptist hermit



Russians, in my experience, are part-drunk most of the time, but if there’s a sober soul between the Black Sea and the Capsian for weeks after the Rostov kermesse he must be a Baptist hermit.



Flashman at the Charge, p.211, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.




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