Tread uncommon wary

Being pagan (attached C of E) with no divine resources, I shall tread uncommon wary and keep my pepperbox handy.


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.114, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.


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A chorus of disapproval

Lola stamped her foot, and shouted after him, ‘Damned papist hypocrite!’ and at this the sycophantic crowd in the ante-chamber broke out in a chorus of sympathy and reproach.
‘Jesuit impertinence!’
‘Intolerable affront!’
‘Scandalous insolence!’
‘Silly old bastard’ (this was Starnberg’s contribution.)
‘Impossible arrogance of these prelates,’ says a stout, florid man near me.
‘I’m Church of England myself,’ says I.

Royal Flash, p.79, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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