Max or die mes enfants

       You see, I’d been his fairly loyal aide-de-camp in his recent futile struggle against Juarez’s republicans — not a post I’d taken from choice, but I’d been a deserter from the French Foreign Legion at the time.


Flashman on the March, p.4, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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A pint of port

So there he was, reputation blasted, and nothing for it, you’d have thought, but to order a pint of port and a pistol for breakfast or join the Foreign Legion.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.247, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.



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