My desperate reputation

They [the press] were never rash enough to suggest I should have command, but seemed to have in mind some auxiliary post of Slaughterer-General, as befitting my desperate reputation.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.46, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.



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The leading aristocrats

Since most of the leading aristocrats held high military rank, and took their duties seriously in a pathetically incompetent way (just like our own really), I gradually became acquainted – not to say friendly – with the governing class.

Flashman's Lady, p.236, Pan edition, 1979.

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Tremendous rank

Plainly it was either from someone of tremendous rank or the manufacturers of a new brand of treacle.

Royal Flash, p.61, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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