I'm blessed!

     ‘I should have thought you overheard, while you were asleep,’ said Mr Franklin caustically, ‘that Miss Delys is only a friend, that I’m married, and strange as it may seem to you, I’m faithful to my wife.’
     ‘You don’t say!’ The General seemed genuinely surprised. ‘Well, I’m blessed!’ He gave Mr Franklin a curious look. ‘You a Baptist, or something like that?’



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


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Belgravian sisters

It was being borne in on me that the moral climate of Abysinnia was not quite that of our own polite society — not that Uliba’s Belgravian sisters are averse to a cut off the joint from time to time, but they know enough to keep quiet about it.


Flashman on the March, p.86, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.



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A little touch

A little touch of Flashy in the night goes a long way with some women…



Flashman and the Dragon, p.88, 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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Fornicating with Viscount Peel

…by the time I reached the Channel I heard news that Lola was in Switzerland, fornicating with Viscount Peel, the old prime minister’s son – no doubt he was well peeled too, by the time she had finished with him.

Royal Flash, pp.270-1, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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So many Flashman amours

It will seem to you to be the usual, sordid conclusion to so many Flashman amours…

Royal Flash, p.26, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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