Trust to luck

      There's a moment, and I've faced it more often than I care to remember, when you're rat-in-the-corner, all your wriggling and lying and imploring have failed, there's nowhere to run, and your only hope is to do your damnedest and trust to luck and every dirty dodge you know.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.148, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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His matchless mixture

Ironic, ain’t it? He’d failed . . . and found his triumph. Wounded and doomed he was a man uplifted, and he laid it off to them with his matchless mixture of deep sincerity and sheer damned humbug.



Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.340, Harper Collins, 1995.


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