A cool half million

           If you’ve read my previous memoirs you’ll know me better than Speedicut did, and won’t share his misgivings about trusting me with a cool half million in silver. Old Flash may be a model of the best vices — lechery, treachery, poltroonery, deceit and dereliction of duty, all present and correct, as you know, and they’re not the half of it — but larceny ain’t his style at all.


Flashman on the March, p.15, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2005.



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By thunder

“…mark him well, ladies and harlots, for Juvenal never spoke a truer word, omne in praecipiti vitium stetit,* by thunder!”


*Every kind of vice has reached its summit.


Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, p.60, Harper Collins, 1995.


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