my quizziest Flashy smile

I gave her a squeeze and a kiss and my quizziest Flashy smile. “We’ve never had any secrets from each other, have we?” I’ll fry in hell, no doubt about it.


Flashman and the Tiger, p.261, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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No surer way

It’s true enough; there’s no surer way of getting a secret than by letting on you know it already.



Flashman and the Tiger, p.26, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Nothing like the job

…kings and chancellors confided in him, empresses and grand duchesses whispered him their secrets, prime ministers and ambassadors sought his advice, and while he was up to every smoky dodge in his hunt for news, he never broke a pledge or betrayed a confidence — or so everyone said, Blowitz loudest of all. I guess his appearance helped, for he was nothing like the job at all, being a five-foot butterball with a beaming baby face behind a mighty moustache, innocent blue eyes, bald head, and frightful whiskers a foot long…

Flashman and the Tiger, p.14, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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No secrets

      I didn’t doubt his information — in a land of spies there are no secrets.


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.356, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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