Friday 14 September 2012
He will surely do
They were the kind of words you’d expect to hear from a Brooke or a Custer, spoken with a heroic flourish and a fist on a table. Napier said them with all the fervour of a man reading a railway time-table . . . but I thought, farewell and adieu, Brother Theodore, your goose is cooked; this quiet old buffer with the dreary whiskers may not shout the odds, but what he says he will surely do.
Flashman on the March, pp.53-4, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.
Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, words.
Labels:
George Custer,
hero,
James Brooke,
old age,
Robert Napier,
whiskers
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