Nobody puts Flashy in the corner

      “Now you know the kind of woman you married. And if you spurn me it will break my heart — but I would do it again, a thousand times!” I’ll swear she gritted her teeth. “No one — no one! speaks ill of my hero, and that’s the size of it!”


Flashman and the Tiger, p.263, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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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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