True words

     ‘One thing becomes clear,’ said Mr Franklin grimly, ‘and that is that every word she said about you is true.’
     ‘What, about being deceitful and dishonest and rotten to the core, you mean? Of course it’s true,’ said Sir Harry comfortably.


Mr American, p.438, Pan Books, paperback edition 1982.


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Holler with good grace

      At the beginning of this memoir I gave you my first Law of Economics; if I have one for Adversity it is once your essentials are properly trapped in the mangle there’s nothing for it but to holler with good grace and wait until they roll you out again. Not that hollering does any good, but it relieves the feelings…




Flashman and the Dragon, p.43, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.


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As always

And, as always, I thought what the devil, if I’m wrong, and have been misjudging her all these years, and she’s as chaste as morning dew—so much the better. If she’s not—and I’ll be bound she’s not—what’s an Indian more or less?

Flashman and the Redskins, p.249, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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