In my callow youth

      There was a time, in my callow youth, when the discovery that I was running not opium but guns would have had me bolting frantically for the nearest patch of timber, protesting that it was nothing to do with me, constable, and the chap in charge would be along in a moment.

Flashman and the Dragon, p.28, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.

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Some imaginary trader

I don’t know who ran the first chest of opium into China but he was a great man in his way. It was as though some imaginary trader had put into the Forth with a cargo of Glenlivet to discover that the Scots had never heard of whisky.

Flashman and the Dragon, p.--, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.

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Emotion and opium

He heaved a minute, and then went on, like a poet on opium.

Flashman's Lady, p.190, Pan edition, 1979.

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