Coward’s instinct if you like, but if I’m still here and in good health, bar my creaky kidneys and a tendency to wind, it’s because I shy at motes, never mind beams — and I don’t walk straight in where I can scout first.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light,
p.172,
Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.
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