It was the end of the great days of the bucks and blades; we had a queen on the throne, and her cold white hand and her poker-backed husband’s were already settling their grip on the nation’s life, smothering the old wild ways in their come-to-Jesus hypocrisy.
Royal Flash, pp.12-13, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.
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