Curious American compulsion

…I didn’t overhear much more, for young Anderson, who was seated next to me, had that curious American compulsion to tell you his life-story, as well as his views on everything under the sun.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.216, Harper Collins, 1995.



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Blinking in the sun

…while I, making an even greater show of impatience than my brother-officers, was secretly well content to rest at ease, blinking in the sun and eating mangoes, to which I’m partial.

Flashman in the Great Game, pp.241-2, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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