Showing posts with label Henri Blowitz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henri Blowitz. Show all posts
Monday, 20 February 2012
Flashman, ein Englander and ein Edelmann
“Wer ist es?” says a female voice, and not knowing the German for Roger the Lodger I said it was Flashman, ein Englander and ein Edelman, and a pal of Blowitz's.
Flashman and the Tiger, p.65, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.
Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, lodger.
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Nothing like the job
…kings and chancellors confided in him, empresses and grand duchesses whispered him their secrets, prime ministers and ambassadors sought his advice, and while he was up to every smoky dodge in his hunt for news, he never broke a pledge or betrayed a confidence — or so everyone said, Blowitz loudest of all. I guess his appearance helped, for he was nothing like the job at all, being a five-foot butterball with a beaming baby face behind a mighty moustache, innocent blue eyes, bald head, and frightful whiskers a foot long…
Flashman and the Tiger, p.14, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.
Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, appearance.
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
His plump little claw
He was reckoned to be the smartest newsman of the time, better than Billy Russell even… Blowitz was a human ferret with his plump little claw on every pulse from Lisbon to the Kremlin…
Flashman and the Tiger, p.14, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.
Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, journalist.
Monday, 9 January 2012
Doubtless a government agent
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