Flashman on pain and Cawnpore

I’ll tell you a strange thing about pain – and Cawnpore. That ankle of mine, which I’d thought was broken, but which in fact was badly sprained, would have kept me flat on my back for days anywhere else, bleating for sympathy; in Cawnpore I was walking on it within a few hours, suffering damnably, but with no coice but to endure it. That was the sort of place it was; if you’d had both legs blown off you were rated fit for only light duties.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.195, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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