Bright swords

As the black chap said in Shakespeare’s play, ’tis better as it is.



Flashman and the Tiger, p.267, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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His abominable son

      What was the phrase young Hawkins used in his book? “Surely, while you're above ground, Hell wants its master!” Spoken of the fictitious image of Rudi von Starnberg, but by God it fitted his abominable son even better...


Flashman and the Tiger, p.143, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Dooced appropriate

…for once I’d recognized his quotation — it had been framed on the wall of the hospital at Rugby, where I’d sobered up on that distant day when Arnold kicked me out . . . “Olim miminisse juvabit”,* and dooced appropriate, too, Seneca, if memory serves.


*It will be pleasant to remember former troubles — Virgil (not Seneca).


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.63, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Grandmothers and scandals

‘ “A Gilzai and a grandmother for scandal”,’ I quoted.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.111, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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