Friday, 26 March 2010

Flat on my back



I say ‘must have been’, for I knew nothing about it; the night we entered Lucknow my bowels began to explode in all directions, and before morning I was flat on my back with cholera, for the second time in my life.



Flashman in the Great Game, p.247, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.




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