Showing posts with label trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trade. Show all posts

Friday, 10 August 2012

Shady pursuits



Trieste ain’t much of a town unless you’re in trade or banking or some other shady pursuit . . .


Flashman on the March, p.9, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Wednesday, 22 December 2010

Some imaginary trader



I don’t know who ran the first chest of opium into China but he was a great man in his way. It was as though some imaginary trader had put into the Forth with a cargo of Glenlivet to discover that the Scots had never heard of whisky.



Flashman and the Dragon, p.--, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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