A near thing

      I love her dearly, far beyond any creature I’ve ever known, and I can prove it, for never once in almost seventy years of married life have I taken her by the throat. Mind you, it’s been a near thing, once or twice.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.232, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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My word?

‘As I understand it,’ says I, ‘your word is pledged already.’

‘My word? Will that heal a cut throat? I talk of what is; I expect Elfistan Sahib to do the same.’

Flashman, p.191, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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