Happy hour

      “Old shipmates, sir!” barks he, glaring as though I were a focsle rat. “Reunited after many years, eh, Flashman? Aye, gratis superveniet quae sperabitur hora!”*


*The happy hour will come, the more gratifying for being unexpected.



Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, pp.38-9, Harper Collins, 1995.



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Blow out your kite

      I can’t begin to describe the effect of hearing that pleasant, half-amused, half-impatient American voice issuing from the copper-red hawk face with its feathered braids; it was like having a Chinese mandarin suddenly bursting into “Boiled Beef and Carrots”.

Flashman and the Redskins, p.336, Pan Books edition, 1983.

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