Thursday 16 August 2012
Little by little
A land of mystery and terror and cruelty, and the loveliest women in all Africa . . . a smiling golden nymph in her little leather tunic, teasing me as she sat by a woodland stream plaiting her braids . . . a gaudy barbarian queen lounging on cushions surrounded by her tame lions . . . a tawny young beauty remarking to my captors: “If we feed him into the fire, little by little, he will speak . . .”
Aye, it’s and interesting country, Abyssinia.
Flashman on the March, p.14, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.
Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, Abyssinia.
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