The delight in blood

“But do you understand the joy of killing for its own sake? The delight in blood and the agony of the dying?” She shook her head. “From all I have heard, that is not in the British nature.”
      You should see a Newgate scragging, you poor ignorant aborigine, thinks I.


Flashman on the March, p.108, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.


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Elementary human relations

Ignorant women I have met, and I knew miss Elspeth must rank high among them, but I had not supposed until now that she had no earthly idea of elementary human relations. (Yet there were even married woman in my time who did not connect their husband's antics in bed with the conception of children.)


Flashman, pp. 57 - 58, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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