Burning down a house

Next to the wreck of a human body, nothing looks so foul as a pretty house in its setting, when the smoke eddies from the roof, and the glare shines in the windows, and the air shakes with heat.


Flashman and the Dragon, p.283, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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Trees must fall

‘To build the house, trees must fall,’ says Kutebar complacently. I agreed with him entirely, mind you.

Flashman at the Charge, p.232, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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