Thursday, 6 May 2010

Victorian conscience



…Victorian conscience is beyond me, thank G-d. I know if anyone who’d done me a bad turn later turned out to be the Archangel Gabriel, I’d still hate the b-----d; but then I’m a scoundrel, you see, with no proper feelings.




Flashman's Lady, p.16, Pan edition, 1979.




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