Friday 29 October 2010

Truckled in my manly way



he gave a wary start at sight of me—it’s remarkable how many people do—and then asked guardedly how I did. I truckled in my manly way, while he watched me as though he thought I was there to pinch the silver.


Flashman and the Redskins, p.229, Pan Books edition, 1983.



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