The young women are mostly great, genteel boisterous things who are no doubt bedworthy enough if your taste runs that way. (One acquaintance of mine who had a Scotch clergyman's daughter described it as like wrestling with a sergeant of dragoons.)
Flashman, p. 51, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.Tags:
Flashman, Scotswomen.
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