Mangles, at the Board of Control in London, had described it as ‘tranquil beneath the Company’s benevolent rule’, but he was a pompous ass with a talent for talking complete bosh on subjects on which he was an authority.
Flashman in the Great Game, p.65, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.
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