Blinking in the sun

…while I, making an even greater show of impatience than my brother-officers, was secretly well content to rest at ease, blinking in the sun and eating mangoes, to which I’m partial.

Flashman in the Great Game, pp.241-2, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Nemesis in full cry

I should have known better, of course. Whenever I’m feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself, some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after me.

Flash For Freedom!, p.110, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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Every delicious moment

There are a few wakenings in your life that you would wish to last for ever, they are so blissful. Too often you wake in bewilderment, and then remember the bad news you went to sleep on, but now and then you open your eyes in the knowledge that all is well and safe and right, and there is nothing to do but lie there with eyes gently shut, enjoying every delicious moment.

Flashman, p.239, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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