Suspicious agricultural activity

I’ve told you my score against Gordon-Cumming — a natural detestation of his supercilious vanity, his unconcealed dislike of me, above all the suspicion that he’d ploughed with my heifer . . .


Flashman and the Tiger, p.240, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Springs up suddenly

Suspicion doesn’t come gradually; it springs up suddenly, and grows with every breath it takes.

Flashman, p.267, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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