‘Hold on, though – what can he do, if even the navy’s powerless?’
‘He’s J.B.,’ says Stuart, simply, with that drunk, smug look you see on a child’s face when his father mends a toy.
Flashman's Lady, pp.127-28, Pan edition, 1979.
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