Solemn word

…to this day I have his trick of rubbing one hand across the back of the other (when thinking deeply), and that I entirely lost my own habit of scratching my backside (when puzzled). Royalty – I have Bersonin’s solemn word for it – never claw at their arses to assist thought.

Royal Flash, p.129, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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The kind of she-cat

'You like her, Flashman bahadur? Is she the kind of she-cat you delight to scratch with?'

Flashman, p.97, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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