The deuce of a row

Now, you may not credit this, but I’m not much of a hand at orgies. I ain’t what you call a prude, but I do hold that an Englishman’s brothel is his castle, where he should behave accordingly — as many flash-tails as he likes, but none of these troop fornications that the Orientals indulge in. It’s not the indecency I mind, but the company of a lot of boozy brutes hallooing and kicking up the deuce of a row when I want to concentrate and give of my best.


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, pp.92-3, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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Astonishing rumbles

…he gave one of his astonishing rumbles, like a bull in a brothel.

Flashman and the Redskins, p.238, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Hard lessons

      I remember thinking as I tapped on the front door, with him at my elbow, brushing his hat on his sleeve: how many poor devils have ever had a mad muderer teaching ‘em Latin in the environs of a leaping-academy in the middle of the night—and why me, of all men?

Flashman and the Redskins, pp.32-33, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Go with what you know

      “A bawd, eh?” says he, and bared his teeth. “Trust you to make for a brothel. Plura faciunt homines e consuetudine, quam e ration*, you dirty little rip.”

*Men do more from habit than from reason.

Flashman and the Redskins, p.32, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Menn like Colonel Flash-mann

‘At Rugby School,’ repeated Albert. ‘That is a great English school, Willy,’ says he to the greenhorn, ‘of the kind which turns younk boys like yourself into menn like Colonel Flash-mann here.’ Well, true enough, I’d found it a fair mixture of jail and knocking-shop; I stood there trying to look like a chap who says his prayers in a cold bath every day.

Flashman at the Charge, p.33, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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No doubt significant

She fussed over me in a way none of the others – wife, aunts, mistresses, whores, legions of them – had ever done. It’s strange, and no doubt significant, that the warmest leave-taking I remember should be from a bawdy-house.

Flash For Freedom!, p.143, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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Say no more

They were all looking like Scotch elders in a brothel…

Royal Flash, p.196, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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