Expecting the Spanish Inquisition

…the great terror of my infancy was a lurid coloured print entitled “All Hope Abandon”, purporting to show what happened when the Spanish Inquisition got hold of you — which they undoubtedly would, my nurse assured me, if I didn’t eat my crusts, or farted in Church.

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.117, Harper Collins, 1995.



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Say no more

…well, if it’s scuttle-butt you want, you don’t go to a cathedral, do you?

Flashman in the Great Game, p.59, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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A little Russian creek

Just a little Russian creek, and today in any English parish church you may see its name on stone memorials, on old tattered flags in cathedrals, in the metalwork of badges, and on nameplates of grimy black streets besides the factories. Alma.

Flashman at the Charge, p.63, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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All they needed

‘Amen,’ says the little doctor, sniffing. Really, all they needed was an organ and a church choir.

Flashman, p.242, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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