…if I hesitated, or argued, or did anything but accept at once they would rule me out immediately for a coward and a hypocrite and a backslider. And then it would be the Newgate hornpipe for Flashy, with the whole damn crew of Sons of the Volsungs hauling on the rope.
Royal Flash, p.202, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.
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