Flashman's Retreat: heart

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Thursday, 17 May 2012

Try a little tenderness

She took her lower lip gently in her teeth — a tiny gesture of puzzlement which has been turning my heart over since 1839.

Flashman and the Tiger, p.232, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.

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Monday, 26 March 2012

Crept as fast

On that happy thought I put up my empty piece, transferred the knife from my boot to my pocket, and crept as fast as might be down the stairs with my heart against my back teeth.

Flashman and the Tiger, p.136, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.

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Monday, 14 November 2011

Cowering in cover

“He was lying deep in the bushes, in terror of his life . . . and I located him by the sounds of his heart beating! Yes, and it’s a sound that has stayed in my ears these many years, that awful drumming of a human heart, in agony and fear.”
Well, I didn’t believe it for a minute; if a beating heart could give you away when you’re cowering in cover, I’d have been dead meat before I was twenty.

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.225, Harper Collins, 1995.

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Friday, 22 October 2010

Shan't call it a heartbreak

…I shan’t call it a heartbreak, for my old pump is too calloused an article to break. But it can feel a twist…

Flashman and the Redskins, p.213, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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Friday, 16 July 2010

Entertaining the troops, and her majesty

This [flogging a colonel] shocked the officers, entertained the troops and delighted her majesty, if the glitter in her eyes was anything to go by . . . as soon as the lashing started I noticed her hand clenching at every stroke, and when the poor devil began to squeal, she grunted with satisfaction. It’s a great gift, knowing the way to a woman’s heart.

Flashman's Lady, pp.235-6, Pan edition, 1979.

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