Thursday 17 January 2013
Stay to govern
“And now you leave us without a king! We were born in bondage, and must die as slaves. Why do you not stay to govern?”
I told him we didn’t want to, and ’twas up to him and his like to govern themselves.
“You mean we must cut each other’s throats,” grumbles he. “This is Africa.”
Flashman on the March, p.279, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.
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