Up Simba!

      “My dear chap!” I clapped his arm in a comradely style; it was like patting an elephant’s leg.


Flashman on the March, p.278, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Beyond all doubt

And blessed if he wasn’t bright-eyed with memory. “Give me your hand, old comrade, and welcome indeed, for I never was so pleased to see anyone, I can tell you!”
     That was the moment when I knew, beyond all doubt, that the doom had come upon me yet again.



Flashman on the March, p.48, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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