Cf. Hollywood

…she had decided a career as a mistress was no great shakes, and had determined to try her luck on stage — she’d been born with a talent for mimicry, and being vicious, immoral, and vain, she had taken to the theatre like a pirate to plunder.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.201, Harper Collins, 1995.



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Harmless enough folk

I’ve been about courts a great deal in my misspent career, and by and large I bar royalty pretty strong. They may be harmless enough folk in themselves, but they attract a desperate gang of placeman and hangers-on, and in my experience, the closer you get to the throne, the nearer you may finish up to the firing-line.

Flashman at the Charge, p.35, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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