Thursday, 18 November 2010

All for a decent play myself but






…I heard sniffing and supposed it was Libby or Elspeth piping her eye. Then the sniff became a baritone groan, and when I looked, so help me it was Custer himself, with his hand to his brow, bedewing his britches with manly tears.


Flashman and the Redskins, p.256, Pan Books edition, 1983.




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