Chasing tweeny maids

     Or her disgraceful great-uncle, for that matter. Now there was a character, and no mistake: still chasing tweeny maids at the age of eighty-seven, treating old age as an advantage rather than a handicap, obviously. What must it be like to be that ancient and just not give a damn?



Mr American, p.202, Pan Books, paperback edition 1982.



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How cool?

...Burnes himself was sitting reading in his study as cool as a minnow…

Flashman, p.115, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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