Friday 23 November 2012

Glum speculation



      To keep my mind from glum speculation, I tried to remember how many times I’d been in chains before. Four or five, pehaps? Proper chains, that is, not the darbies used by the A Division peelers to restrain obstreperous revellers, but your genuine bilboes.


Flashman on the March, p.201, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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