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Always the romantic
?where?s the fun if it?s all too easy, I told myself, and set to scheme how I might bring the lady to the sticking point, as we Shakespeare scholars say.
Flash For Freedom!, p.29, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
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Can't mount a rebellion
?they expected the Paddies to rise at any time, and there was talk of Dublin being besieged. All humbug of course; you can?t mount a rebellion on rotten potatoes.
Flash For Freedom!, p.29, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
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Even slimy little snakes
Now, if I?d been as wise then as I am now, I?d have remembered that even as slimy a snake as Bryant still has fangs?
Flash For Freedom!, pp.28-29, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
snake
fangs Evenly spread bigotry
?he had in tow the cocky little sheeny D?Israeli, whom I never could stomach. He was pathetic really, trying to behave like the Young Idea when he was well into greasy middle age, with his lovelock and fancy vest, like a Punjabi whoremaster?.if I?d been able to read the future I might have toadied him a good deal more, I dare say.
Flash For Freedom!, pp.24-25, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
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An evening at Cleeve House
In the meantime, the first evening at Cleeve was quite as much fun as a Methodist service. Of course, all Tory gatherings are the same, and Locke had assembled as choice a collection of know-all prigs as you could look for.
Flash For Freedom!, p.24, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
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Old school house party
I could see this was the kind of house-party that wasn?t Flashy?s style at all. I was used to hunting weeks where you dined any old how, with lots of brandy and singing, and chaps p_____g in the corner and keeping all hours, and no females except the local bareback riders, as old Jack Mitton used to call them
Flash For Freedom!, p.24, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
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house party.
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