Showing posts with label pretend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pretend. Show all posts

Friday, 12 February 2010

Lifetime impersonation



...I’ve been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of ’em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime’s impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.



Flashman in the Great Game, p.115, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.




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Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Obviously not a consultant then



He was an authority, of the true kind who never pretends more than he knows…



Royal Flash, p.174, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.




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