Max or die mes enfants

       You see, I’d been his fairly loyal aide-de-camp in his recent futile struggle against Juarez’s republicans — not a post I’d taken from choice, but I’d been a deserter from the French Foreign Legion at the time.


Flashman on the March, p.4, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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A dreadful opponent

He was tall and active, but nothing like my weight, and Flashy in the grip of mortal fear, with nowhere to run to and no choice but to fight is probably a dreadful opponent.

Royal Flash, p.178, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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