An appropriate inscription

…when she died in her sixty-sixth year, her tombstones was given the appropriate inscription: “Under this stone lies all that could die of Lady Sale”.*


*Please note, this is not taken from the Flashman Papers 1845-46 but quoted from the editor's footnotes (No. 9).



Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.377, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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The best troopers

And of course Lady Sale was to the fore, wearing an enormous turban and riding a tiny Afghan pony side-saddle. ‘I was saying to Lady McNaghten that I believe we wives would make the best troopers of all,’ she cries out. ‘What do you think, Mr Flashman?’
‘I’d take your Ladyship into my troop any time,’ says I, at which she simpered horribly – ‘but the other horses might be jealous,’ I says to myself quietly, at which the lancers set up a great laugh.

Flashman, p.178, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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