Grim attentive mien

…I nodded dutifully, with that grim attentive mien which I’ve learned to wear while scheming frantically how to slide out from under.


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.46, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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Grin and agree

Speaking from a safe distance, I can say it was a sound scheme. Hearing it proposed for the first time I thought it was fit to loosen the bowels of a bronze statue – but the hellish thing is, whatever a general suggests, you can do nothing but grin and agree.

Flashman in the Great Game, pp.277-8, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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