My immediate thought

      “What do you know of John Brown?”
     That he’s a hairy lout who can hold more hard liquor than a distillery, was my immediate thought, for the only John Brown I knew was a young ghillie…


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.89, Harper Collins, 1995.


Tags: Flashman, Flashman quotes, ghillie.

Grinning on the terrace

…the ghillies loafed about grinning on the terrace with the guns and pouches – they knew I loathed it, and that Ellenborough couldn’t carry his guts for more than ten yards without a rest, and the brutes enjoyed our discomfiture.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.47, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

Tags:
Flashman, Flashman quotes,Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough.