Genteel sponging

. . . I learned that he was in the diplomatic, which didn’t surprise me, for he was a born toad-eater with a great gift of genteel sponging and an aversion to work.


Flashman on the March, p.10, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Gambling and the gentry

It’s always the same; the more genteel the company, the fouler the play.

Royal Flash, p.14, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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