Bone clean

. . . I was conducted to an airy chamber on the third floor, bone clean and well if sparsely furnished with a good charpoy,* leather chair, table, wash-stand, rug on the floor and leather curtain on the arrow-slit window — I’ve stayed in country inns at home that were less decent and comfortable.


* Native frame-and-cord bedstead.



Flashman on the March, p.77, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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No-one’s fooled

It was the kind of face-saving settlement that’s arranged daily at Westminister and in parish councils, and no-one’s fooled except the public — and not all of them, either.


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.133, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.


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Flashman on extraordinary circumstances

...whatever happens to you, however far-fetched, you get used to eventually, I’ve found...

Royal Flash, p.132, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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