In days gone by

You’ll recall Cumming was among those I’d suspected of dancing the honeymoon hornpipe with my dear one in days gone by . . .


Flashman and the Tiger, p.265, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Suspicious agricultural activity

I’ve told you my score against Gordon-Cumming — a natural detestation of his supercilious vanity, his unconcealed dislike of me, above all the suspicion that he’d ploughed with my heifer . . .


Flashman and the Tiger, p.240, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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A loving couple

. . . she had suddenly dropped him like a hot rivet, even cut him dead in the Row. I never knew why, and didn't inquire; the less I knew of her transgressions (and she of mine) the better — I reckon that's why we've always been such a loving couple.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.224, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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If only they knew

It’s so easy, as none knows better than I, to sneer at the Pantaloons of this world, and the cheated wives, too, while the rakes and tarts make fools of them – ‘If only they knew, ho-ho!’ Perhaps they do, or suspect, but would just rather not let on.

Flashman at the Charge, p.49, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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