Squaring the account

I’ve heard some amazing declarations in my time, but this babbling was extraordinary. It comes of Christian upbringing, of course, and taking cold baths, all of which implants in the impressionable mind the notion that repentance can somehow square the account.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.210, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

Holy harangue

Anyway, he gave me a fine holy harangue, about how through repentance I might be saved - which I've never believed, by the way. I've repented a good deal in my time, and had good cause, but I was never ass enough to suppose it mended anything.




Flashman, p. 14, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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