Friday 14 October 2011
Expecting the Spanish Inquisition
…the great terror of my infancy was a lurid coloured print entitled “All Hope Abandon”, purporting to show what happened when the Spanish Inquisition got hold of you — which they undoubtedly would, my nurse assured me, if I didn’t eat my crusts, or farted in Church.
Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.117, Harper Collins, 1995.
Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, terror.
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