Loretta reports:
1845
"Mai Jeendan wants to marry you! There now!"
....
After all, it’s one thing to win a maiden heart, and very fine, but when a man-eater who’s sampled the best from Peshawar to Poona cries “Eureka!” over you, it’s no wonder if you glance in the mirror. At the same time, it’s quite a facer, and my first words, possibly instinctive, were:
“Christ, she ain’t pregnant, is she?”
Harry Flashman, Flashman and the Mountain of Light, George MacDonald Fraser.
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