Thursday, 26 November 2009

Palmerston was in the saddle




Which was what you’d have expected any half-competent government to stage-manage in the first place, but Palmerston was in the saddle by then, and he wasn’t really good at politics, you know.



Flashman in the Great Game, p.18, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.




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