Suppressing wickedness

      ‘Oh, aye – we hear much of them, and how the company suppressed their wickedness. And why – because they slew travellers, or was it because they served a Hindoo god and so offended the Christian Company?’ She eyed me contemptuously. ‘Belike had the Thugs been Jesus-worshippers, they would have been roaming yet – especially if they had chosen Hindoo victims.’
      You can’t argue with gross prejudice, so I looked amiable…

Flashman in the Great Game, p.91, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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A comforting thought

…the advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies means anything, I’ll be saved when the Archbishop of Canterbury is damned. It’s a comforting thought.

Flashman at the Charge, p.150, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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