Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts

Monday, 10 January 2011

A question of identity



      “Who are you?” I interrupted, and she looked slightly surprised.
      “Bandits,” says she, as one might have said “Conservatives, of course”…



Flashman and the Dragon, p.80, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Eton rifles



‘He attended Eton college,’ says Whampoa gravely, ‘but that is not, in itself, necessarily inconsistent with a later life of crime.



Flashman's Lady, p.120, Pan edition, 1979.



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