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Harry Paget Flashman

Blustering hadnt helped me, and a look at Rudis mocking face told me that whining wouldnt either. Robbed of the two cards which I normally play in a crisis, I was momentarily lost.

— Harry Paget Flashman men

But strangely enough, I became a little closer to de Gautet, for I discovered that he shared one of my chief interests, which is horseﬂesh. He was an authority, of the true kind who never pretends more than he knows, and in the saddle he was nearly as good as I was myself, which is to say he would have been topnotch among any horsemen in the world — even the Cheyennes of the American plains, who are the best I know.

— Harry Paget Flashman men

He Scud East hadnt got Valla to refresh him, either, which might have had a calming effect. I thought of suggesting that he take a steam-bath with Aunt Sara, to settle his nerves, but he might have enjoyed it too much, and then gone mad repenting.

— Harry Paget Flashman joy

His Cardigans voice pursued me, cracking with rage. Colonel Fwashman! he cried. You are a viper! I turned at that, making myself go red in the face in righteous wrath, but I knew what I was about; he was getting no blow or challenge from me — he shot too damned straight for that. Indeed, my lord, says I. Yet I dont wriggle and turn. And I left him gargling, well

— Harry Paget Flashman self

I turned at that, making myself go red in the face in righteous wrath, but I knew what I was about; he was getting no blow or challenge from me — he shot too damned straight for that.

— Harry Paget Flashman self

And a cutlass, of course, says he, youll feel naked without that. He little knew that I could feel naked in a suit of armour in the bowels of a Dreadnought being attacked by an angry bum-boat-woman.

— Harry Paget Flashman man

He little knew that I could feel naked in a suit of armour in the bowels of a Dreadnought being attacked by an angry bum-boat-woman.

— Harry Paget Flashman man

I see it the cricket field in the late evening sun, the players in their white top-hats trooping in from the ﬁeld, with the ripple of applause running round the ropes, and the urchins streaming across to worship, while the old buffers outside the pavilion clap and cry Played, well played! and raise their tankards, and the Captain tosses the ball to some round-eyed small boy wholl guard it as a relic for life, and the scorer climbs stiffly down from his eyrie and the shadows lengthen across the idyllic scene, the very picture of merry, sporting old England, with the umpires bundling up the stumps, the birds calling in the tall trees, the gentle evenfall stealing over the ground and the pavilion, and the empty benches, and the willow wood-pile behind the sheep pen where Flashy is plunging away on top of the landlords daughter in the long grass. Aye, cricket was cricket then.

— Harry Paget Flashman life

—that harlot Lade? Isnt your name a byword in London for debauchery and vice, for every kind of lewdness and depravity?

— Harry Paget Flashman you

Well, even from above and through a muslin screen there was no doubt that she Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar was female, and no need for stays to make the best of it, either; she stood like an ebony statue as the two wenches began to bathe her from bowls of water. Some vulgar lout grunted lasciviously, and realizing who it was I shrank back a triﬂe in sudden anxiety that Id been overheard.

— Harry Paget Flashman anxiety

the fellow Will was on the floor but had a hold on Springs ankle, which I thought was uncommon game of him, while my other captor had Spring around the neck. Even as I looked, Spring sent him flying and turned to stamp on Wills face — those days in the Oriel combination room werent wasted, thinks I

— Harry Paget Flashman thought

You may ask if a month in the wilds with that great scout taught me much of woodcraft and mountain lore; I can reply with conﬁdence that by the time we reached Fort Laramie, I could deduce by the sight of a broken twig that someone had stepped on it, and when I saw a great pile of dung on the prairie I knew at once that a buffalo had let drive.

— Harry Paget Flashman time

Its a remarkable thing and Ive 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. Im lucky, because while I dont have it, I look as though I do, and worthy souls like Carson and Wootton never suspect that Im running around with my bowels squirting, ready to decamp, squeal, or betray as occasion demands.

— Harry Paget Flashman life

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