A critter best left alone

Aye, that would teach him that Flashy’s a critter best left alone because as Thomas hughes pointed out, he can find ways of striking home that you ain’t even thought of.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.69, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Thoughts of home

It’s a strange thing, to come through hundreds of miles of wilderness, from a foreign land and moving in the wrong direction, and suddenly find yourself sniffing the air and thinking, ‘home’. If you’re British, and have soldiered in India, you’ll understand what I mean.

Flashman at the Charge, p.214, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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Flashy got beastly drunk

I learned in later years that the only safe place to get drunk is among friends in your own home, but that evening I made a thorough pig of myself, and the long and short of it was that ‘Flashy got beastly drunk’, to quote my old friend Tom Hughes.

Royal Flash, p.85, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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