Showing posts with label dignity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dignity. Show all posts
Monday, 6 August 2012
Over the wall
They’d been my associates in a botched attempt to rescue Max on the eve of his execution. We’d failed because (you’ll hardly credit this) the great clown had refused point-blank to escape because it didn’t sort with his imperial dignity, Austro-Hungarian royalty preferring to die than go over the wall.
Flashman on the March, p.5, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.
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