Belgravian sisters

It was being borne in on me that the moral climate of Abysinnia was not quite that of our own polite society — not that Uliba’s Belgravian sisters are averse to a cut off the joint from time to time, but they know enough to keep quiet about it.


Flashman on the March, p.86, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.



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Damned good form

We tiffened with some of their senior men, all courteous to a fault, and not a word about the likelihood our armies would be at each other’s throats by Christmas — the Sikhs are damned good form, you know.


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.59, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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In polite society

‘I shall go,’ says I, and started crawling for the flap. ‘But I may tell you,’ I added, ‘that in polite society it ain’t usual for gentlemen to squeeze ladies’ tits, whatever you have been told. And it ain’t usual, either for ladies to let gentlemen do it; it gives the gentlemen a wrong impression, you know. My apologies, again. Goodnight.’

Flashman, p.185, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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