The deuce of a row

Now, you may not credit this, but I’m not much of a hand at orgies. I ain’t what you call a prude, but I do hold that an Englishman’s brothel is his castle, where he should behave accordingly — as many flash-tails as he likes, but none of these troop fornications that the Orientals indulge in. It’s not the indecency I mind, but the company of a lot of boozy brutes hallooing and kicking up the deuce of a row when I want to concentrate and give of my best.


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, pp.92-3, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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Implacable zeal

…always the same concentration, the same implacable zeal for perfection. No wonder she became mistress of all China — or that the Emperor died of her mattress gymnastics. Ten years? It’s a marvel he lasted ten days.


Flashman and the Dragon, pp.238-39, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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Concentrates the mind

…having Mangas Colorado looming over you, looking like something off the gutters of Notre Dame, concentrates the mind wonderfully…

Flashman and the Redskins, p.172, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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