General or Colonel So-and-so

These Russian civil servants are a bad lot – pompous, stupid and rude at best. They come in various grades, each with a military title – so that General or Colonel So-and-so turns out to be someone who neglects the parish sanitation or keeps inaccurate records of livestock.

Flashman at the Charge, p.128, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.

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Rude with impunity

But in my youth and ignorance I imagined that he was one of those to whom I could be rude with impunity – servants, tarts, bagman, shopkeepers, and foreigners…

Royal Flash, p.11, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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I disliked Scotland

I disliked Scotland and the Scots; the place I found wet and the people rude. They had fine qualities which bore me - thrift and industry and long-faced holiness.




Flashman, p. 51, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.

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