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Originally posted by oasis_lad
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Are you a Flashman fan Laddie? Maybe I've asked you before.
"I was tired and cranky, but I couldn't think of sleep, somehow, so I went out and started to get drunk. I was full of apprehension about the coming campaign, and fed up with endless files and reports, and my head ached, and my shoes pinched, so I poured down the whistle-belly with brandy on top, and the inevitable result was that I finished up three parts tight in some cellar near Charing . Cross. l thought of a whore, but didn't want one-and then it struck me: I wanted Elspeth, and nothing else. By God, there was I, on the brink of another war, slaving my innards into knots, while she was tripping about in a Mayfair ballroom, laughing and darting chase-me glances at party-saunterers and young gallants, having a fine time for hours on end, and she hadn't been able to spare me five minutes for a tumble! She was my wife, dammit, and it was too bad. I put away some more brandy while I considered the iniquity of this, and took a great drunken resolve-I would go round to Marjorie's at once, surprise my charmer when she came to bed, and make her see what she had been missing all evening. Aye, that was it-and it was romantic, too, the departing warrior tupping up the girl he was going to leave behind, and she full of love and wistful longing and be-damned. (Drink's a terrible thing.) Anyway, of I set west, with a full bottle in my pocket to see me through the walk, for it was after four, and there wasn't even a cab to be had."Comment
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Not overly familiar with it to be honest.Comment
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Sort of character you'd find funny. A booze-guzzling, womanising coward with the undeserved reputation as the bravest soldier in the British Army. Plenty of good history in there too.Originally posted by Oasis_Lad View PostComment
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Sounds Interesting. I've been looking for something new to read.Comment
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LMAO, Banned again - what a ****!Comment
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Wife Number 5 for Seweryn Antonowicz Kosowski:
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Don't think I'll poison this one.Comment
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What's he done?Comment
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