His matchless mixture

Ironic, ain’t it? He’d failed . . . and found his triumph. Wounded and doomed he was a man uplifted, and he laid it off to them with his matchless mixture of deep sincerity and sheer damned humbug.



Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.340, Harper Collins, 1995.


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