Rendered maudlin

She was anxious for me, you see, the besotted little aristo — it's remarkable how even the most worldly of women can be rendered maudlin by Adam's arsenal.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.115, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Lady-in-waiting

      I stared at the officer.  “She left this . . . for me?  Did she say why?”
      He shook his head, bored.  “She told me to give it to the big fan-qui. Nothing more.”
      “But she said she was going to wait!”
      “Oh, aye.” He stopped in the act of lounging off.  “She told me to say . . . that she would always be waiting.”  He shrugged. “Whatever that may mean.”


Flashman and the Dragon, p.96, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.



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A damned romantic business

You can’t help it; feeling randy is a damned romantic business, and it’s my belief that Galahad was a bigger beast in bed than ever Lancelot was.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.98, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Young women

Usually, with young women, I get along all too well. Formal chit-chat isn’t my style – a little gallantry, a few jocularities to see if she will or won’t, a pinch on the buttocks, and off we go. Either that, or off I go.

Royal Flash, p.155, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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Young and raw

When you are young and raw and on the brink of adventure, you set great store by having your side-arms just right, because you are full of romantic notions of how you will use them. Even I felt a thrill when I first handled a sabre at practice with the 11th Light Dragoons, and imagined myself pinking and mowing down hordes of ferocious but obligingly futile enemies. But when you’ve seen a sabre cut to the bone, and limbs mangled by bullets, you come out of your daydream pretty sharp.

Royal Flash, pp.67 - 68, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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