‘Titles?’ cries he, smiling. ‘They’re like fine clothes, penny trumpets, and turtle soup – all of slight but equal value.’
Flashman's Lady, p.147, Pan edition, 1979.
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Friday, 25 June 2010
Trumpets, turtles and titles
‘Titles?’ cries he, smiling. ‘They’re like fine clothes, penny trumpets, and turtle soup – all of slight but equal value.’
Flashman's Lady, p.147, Pan edition, 1979.
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Downright insulted
‘We must try to use it, to warn Raglan and the people at home! What have we got to lose, except our lives?’
D’you know, when a man talks like that to me, I feel downright insulted. Why other, unnamed lives, or the East India Company’s dividend, or the credit of Lord Aberdeen or the honour of British arms, should be held by me to be of greater consequence than my own shrinking skin, I’ve always been at a loss to understand.
Flashman at the Charge, pp.171-2, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.
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