‘Your highness,’ says I, ‘I can’t talk like Mr Erskine, or Captain Skene even. I’m a soldier, not a diplomat, so I won’t mince words.’ And thereafter I minced them for all I was worth…
Flashman in the Great Game, pp.80-81, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.
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