Her flash arts

      There is a tide in the affairs of men when you simply have to chuck it — as, for example, when you learn that the wife of your unsuspecting bosom is a practised thimblerigger who has used her flash arts to ruin an innocent man.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.260, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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A perfect shield

In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence.


Flashman, p.58, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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