‘Why of course,’ says she. ‘we are quite an Indian gathering, with Mr Macaulay here.’ The name meant nothing to me then, he was looking at me damned hard, though, with his pretty little mouth set hard. I later learned that he had spent several years in government out there, so my fat-headed remark had not been lost on him, either.
Flashman, p.272, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.
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