Monday, 14 June 2010

Pirates and roses




Well. well, thinks I, who’d have thought it: the mad pirate-killer and rose-fancier, spoony on Angie Coutts’s picture – I’ll bet that every time he contemplates it the local Dyak lasses have to scamper for cover.



Flashman's Lady, p.133, Pan edition, 1979.



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