Charming monarchs

I was thinking of other charming monarchs I had known, like Ranavalona with her death-pits, and that noble savage Gezo of Dahomey bouncing about on his throne fairly slobbering with glee as his Amazons sliced up his victims with cleavers. Plainly Theodore was from the same stable. It’s enough to make you turn republican.


Flashman on the March, p.107, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Scholarly dedication

Close by me was Spring, bawling like a madman; he had his pepper-pot revolver in one hand, firing backwards towards the path, and by God, with the other he was trying to drag along one of the amazons he’d bought. the man’s dedication to scholarly research was incredible.

Flash For Freedom!, p.82, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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A dangling skull

Well, they were likely big wenches, certainly, and they bounced along very jolly, but when I watch a wobbling buttock I prefer it to be unobscured by a dangling skull. And I’m no hand with women who look as though they’d rather kill and eat me than grapple in the grass.

Flash For Freedom!, p.76, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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