The Mad Sapper

Well, soldiering under Joe Wolseley had been bad enough, but a at least he was sane. Gordon? I'd as soon go to war with the town drunk. The man wasn't safe — sticking forks in people and scattering tracts around railway carriages and accosting perfect strangers to see if they'd met Jesus lately, I ask you! No a holiday abroad was indicated before the Mad Sapper came recruiting.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.49, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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One sin he missed

No, no, Jesus would see the repentant sinner right, and I would never swear or fornicate or steal or lie again – I strove to remember the seven deadly sins, to make sure I missed none of them, and then cudgeled my brains for the Ten Commandments, so that I could promise never to break them again – although, mind you, I’ve never set up a graven image in my life.

Royal Flash, p.203, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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Full of self-impotance

I could have kicked Pottinger’s fat backside for him; he was so damned full of self-importance, standing there looking like Jesus Christ, with his lovely brown beard and whiskers.

Flashman, p.187, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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