No such thing

There’s no such thing as an unfashionable hero or an unsuitable heiress.

Flashman's Lady, p.22, Pan edition, 1979.

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Like father, like son

But I had my doubts about the paternity of little Havvy – so called because his names were Harry Albert Victor, and he couldn’t say ‘Harry’ properly, generally because his mouth was full. My chum Speedicut, I remember, who is a coarse brute, claimed to see a conclusive resemblance to me: when Havvy was a few weeks old, and Speed came to the nursery to see him getting his rations, he said the way the infant went after the nurse’s tits proved beyond a doubt whose son he was.

Flashman at the Charge, p.16, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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Hideous with his noise

Poor little Havvy, by the way, was our son and heir, a boisterous malcontent five-year-old who made the house hideous with his noise and was forever hitting his shuttlecocks about the place.

Flashman at the Charge, p.15/span>, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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