Monday 21 March 2011
Destruction of the Summer Palace
“I am therefore requesting the Commander-in-Chief —” he nodded towards Grant — “to take the requisite steps for the complete destruction of the Summer Palace.”
My first thought was that I hadn’t heard right; my second, what a perfectly nonsensical idea: someone murders twenty people, so you plough up his garden.
Flashman and the Dragon, pp.274-5, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.
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