‘Colonel Fwashman!’ he cried. ‘You are a viper!’
I turned at that, making myself go red in the face in righteous wrath, but I knew what I was about; he was getting no blow or challenge from me – he shot too damned straight for that.
‘Indeed, my lord,’ says I. ‘Yet I don’t wriggle and turn.’
Flashman in the Great Game, p.17, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.
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