Not so fancy footwork

He advanced a pace, squinting up where I was pointing – and the next instant his courting tackle was half-way up inside his torso, impelled by my right boot, he was flying across the cabin, screaming, and Flashy was out and racing…

Flashman's Lady, p.200, Pan edition, 1979.

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Nothing as gleeful

There’s nothing as gleeful as a Pathan when he’s doing the dirty…

Flashman in the Great Game, p.176, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Ever the diplomat, our Flash

Such conditions of squalor, half the year in stifling heat, half in unimaginable cold, and all spent in back-breaking labour, are probably enough to explain why they [Russian serfs] were such an oppressed, dirty, brutish, useless people – just like the Irish, really, but without the gaiety.

Flashman at the Charge, p.144, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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