It’s different now, of course; since it became a safe place many of our best and most highly-connected people have let the light of their counternances shine on India, with the results you might expect – prices have gone up, service has gone down, and the women have got the clap.
Flashman in the Great Game, p.58, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.
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