The Villain Still Pursued Her

Well, this was Act Two of “The Villain Still Pursued Her” with a vengeance, wasn’t it just? Not that I disbelieved it for an instant — show me melodrama, and I’ll show you truth, every time.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.295, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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A besotted grandparent

I’d much have preferred going to watch Nala Damajanti and her Amazing Snakes at the Palace, or the corsetted fat bottoms and tits in George Edwardes’ show, but being a besotted grandparent I’d have let my little Selina coax me into watching three hours of steady rain and been happy.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.289, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Sapper jacket and .44 revolver

Instead of a smoking, blood-stained ruin, there was the plush and guilt of the circle bar at the St James’s Theatre, instead of the Sapper jacket and .44 revolver there was an opera cloak and silver-mounted cane, and instead of dead Zulus for company there was Oscar Wilde. (I make no comparisons.)


Flashman and the Tiger, p.289, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Cf. Hollywood

…she had decided a career as a mistress was no great shakes, and had determined to try her luck on stage — she’d been born with a talent for mimicry, and being vicious, immoral, and vain, she had taken to the theatre like a pirate to plunder.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.201, Harper Collins, 1995.



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Mouthing the Agincourt speech

I can see him still; erect, head thrown back, eyes blazing, like the worst kind of actor mouthing the Agincourt speech to a crowd of yokels in a tent theatre in the backwoods.

Flashman's Lady, p.139, Pan edition, 1979.

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