Playing Lionheart

      True, I’d have to arrange matters so that I could appear to be commanding the Galla operations while keeping clear of the action, but that ain’t difficult when you’ve had years of practice. I’m a prime hand at playing Lionheart without doing a blessed thing (what dear old Tom Hughes called “shouts and great action”) . . .


Flashman on the March, pp.168-9, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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A critter best left alone

Aye, that would teach him that Flashy’s a critter best left alone because as Thomas hughes pointed out, he can find ways of striking home that you ain’t even thought of.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.69, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Thomas Hughes

Hughes got it wrong, in one important detail.



Flashman, p. 11, Pan edition 12th printing, 1979.