Daren't drink anything else

      Fifteen dollars a bottle they were charging for claret at the Planters’ Hotel in St Louis that year, and it was like drinking swamp-water when the mules have been by; I’ve tasted better in a London ladies’ club. But you daren’t drink anything else because of the cholera…

Flashman and the Redskins, p.54, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Best things

The best things I found however, were the port, and the claret, in which the Scotch have a nice taste, although I never took to whisky.





Flashman, p. 51, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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