As fine a catalogue

…as you may know from my memoirs, as fine a catalogue of honours won through knavery, cowardice, taking cover, and squealing for mercy as you’ll ever strike.


Flashman and the Mountain of Light, p.22, Fontana Paperback edition, 1991.



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Idol thoughts

She would have made a stone idol squeal.



Flashman and the Dragon, p.212, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.


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Decamp, squeal, or betray

      It’s a remarkable thing (and I’ve traded on it all my life) that a single redeeming quality in a black sheep wins greater esteem than all the virtues in honest men—especially if the quality is courage. I’m lucky, because while I don’t have it, I look as though I do, and worthy souls like Carson and Wootton never suspect that I’m running around with my bowels squirting, ready to decamp, squeal, or betray as occasion demands.

Flashman and the Redskins, p.206, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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A question of ethnic identity

She gave a frightened little moan, opened her eyes wide, and whispered:
     ‘You’re sure you’re Jewish … not … not Indian?’
     ‘Han, mem-sahib,’ says I, thrusting away respectfully, and she gave a contented little squeal and grappled me like a wrestler.

Flashman in the Great Game, p.141, Pan edition, 4th printing, 1979.

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