Backhanded tribute

It's a backhanded tribute to the memory of the late unlamented Rudi Von Starnberg that my first impulse on meeting his offspring was to look for the communication cord and bawl for help. Time was I’d ha’ done both, but when you've reached your sixties you've either learned to bottle your panic, sit tight, and think like blazes . . . or you haven't reached your sixties, mallum?*

* understand?


Flashman and the Tiger, p.77, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Spunk an' gumption

“…ev’ybody — got sumpn to take to market, if they got the spunk an’ gumption to make the most o’ theyselves. You is what you think you is — an’ that’s why Ah’m a lady.”


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.293, Harper Collins, 1995.


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Ill thoughts and spit

‘Let the ill think ill,’ says I easily. ‘The spittle of a durwan* will not drown a soldier.’

* Door-keeper.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.74, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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Stops you from thinking

It’s a great thing, prayer. Nobody answers, but at least it stops you from thinking.

Flashman, p.217, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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