Wednesday 23 January 2013
His quiet smile
There was general laughter at this, and Napier said with his quiet smile that we must resign ourselves to being regarded as callously irresponsible or rapaciously greedy. “Brutal indifference or selfish imperialism; those are the choices. As an old Scotch maidservant of my acquaintance used to say: ‘Ye cannae dae right for daein’ wrang!’
Flashman on the March, pp.286-7, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.
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