Pirates and roses

Well. well, thinks I, who’d have thought it: the mad pirate-killer and rose-fancier, spoony on Angie Coutts’s picture – I’ll bet that every time he contemplates it the local Dyak lasses have to scamper for cover.

Flashman's Lady, p.133, Pan edition, 1979.

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Brave, cheery and deadly

      ‘Sea Dyaks,’ says Stuart. ‘The bravest, cheeriest folk you’ll ever see – fight like tigers, cruel as the grave, but loyal as Swiss.’

Flashman's Lady, p.130, Pan edition, 1979.

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