Your glorious pedestal

“Aye,” says he sourly, looking me up and down, “I wish I’d a guinea for every poor bastard whose bones must have gone into making your glorious pedestal. Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina,* I’ll lay!”

*He rejoices to have made his way by ruin – Lucan.

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.41, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Professor Flashy and Orientalism

‘Ah, believe me, until you have anchored off Singapore, or cruised the tropical coasts of Sumatra and Java and Borneo, and seen the glorious China Sea, where it is always morning – oh, my dear, you have seen nothing!’
      Nonsense, of course; the Orient stinks. Always did.

Flashman's Lady, pp.53-54, Pan edition, 1979.

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Looking glorious

Elspeth was fast asleep, looking glorious with the candlelight on her blonde hair tumbled over the pillow, and her rosebud lips half open, snoring like the town band.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.39, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Markedly worse

It is my purpose to show how the Flashman of Tom Brown became the glorious Flashman with four inches in Who's Who and grew markedly worse in the process.




Flashman, p. 30, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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