A downier bird

There wasn’t a downier bird in all India than Nicholson, or one who knew the country better, and you could have trusted him with anything, money even.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.61, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Cardinal folly

Master Ignatieff might be a clever and devilish dangerous man, but he had at least one of the besetting weaknesses of youth: he was as vain as an Etonian duke, and it led him to commit the cardinal folly in a diplomatic man. He talked too much.

Flashman at the Charge, p.207, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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