Showing posts with label cut throat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cut throat. Show all posts
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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Tuesday, 3 June 2008
My word?
‘As I understand it,’ says I, ‘your word is pledged already.’
‘My word? Will that heal a cut throat? I talk of what is; I expect Elfistan Sahib to do the same.’
Flashman, p.191, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
‘My word? Will that heal a cut throat? I talk of what is; I expect Elfistan Sahib to do the same.’
Flashman, p.191, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
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Flashman, 
Flashman quotes.
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