Wellington's joke

I did my best, and like a fool ventured Wellington's joke when the Queen asked him what was the aroma from the ranks of the Guards, and Nosey replied: “Esprit de corps, ma’am.”


Flashman and the Tiger, p.127, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Professor Flashy and Orientalism

‘Ah, believe me, until you have anchored off Singapore, or cruised the tropical coasts of Sumatra and Java and Borneo, and seen the glorious China Sea, where it is always morning – oh, my dear, you have seen nothing!’
      Nonsense, of course; the Orient stinks. Always did.

Flashman's Lady, pp.53-54, Pan edition, 1979.

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