Eastville

…present chronicle, Mr Crass Cheseham knocks at the door of a familiar and rather nasty little dwelling in Eastville. The door being opened to Mr Cheseham by the familiar and distinctly nasty occupant thereof, he is after a furtive and none too pleasant exchange suffered to enter within, and to penetrate even unto the desolation of the lounge of that dwelling, with its unpardonably foetid and greasy chaise longue, and…

Mrs Roger Buggery, back home that early evening in Eastville and ensconced in her boudoir, scowls into the mirror. It must be said that she did not take a great deal of pleasure in Mr Crass Cheseham’s company at the hustings. Mr Cheseham was, to deploy an usage familiar to the reader withal utterly alien to Mrs Roger Buggery, the vey personification of ill-favoured gentleman wont to be met with…

…explaining Mr Tad Curmudgeonly’s presence upon this grey morning in a familiar and rather nasty little lane in Eastville.

Taking his way back to Eastville, Mr Roger Buggery cut a thoroughly disconsolate figure, which in some mysterious manner served to exacerbate even his habitual abjectness. As he slunk nastily along Shaftesbury Avenue and past the Startling Farter, the ladies who encountered him instinctively crossed the road to avoid him, and the gentlemen looked him up and down in disgust. Mr Roger Buggery, being entirely used to such treatment, paid…