Holler with good grace

      At the beginning of this memoir I gave you my first Law of Economics; if I have one for Adversity it is once your essentials are properly trapped in the mangle there’s nothing for it but to holler with good grace and wait until they roll you out again. Not that hollering does any good, but it relieves the feelings…




Flashman and the Dragon, p.43, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.


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