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.
Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, shady.
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.
Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, opium.
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