Vert Rouge salon

…hustings, Mr Tad Curmudgeonly forcibly drove from his mind the notion of plebeian miscegenation, and repaired unto the Vert Rouge salon behind the Queen Anne façade, in the happy anticipation of finding therein the identical Cuban cigars and champagne cognac so relished by Sir Gerald; these to be savoured in the congenial society of clubbable cheps belonging to a social stratum sufficiently adjacent to his own so as not to…

…anticipating for much the same reasons as those just mentioned that he would not be received in the Vert Rouge salon behind the Queen Anne façade, straightaway forsook those purlieus, making his way across the City Centre, and was presently to be observed trudging along Jamaica Street where, turning smartly to the left in front of the place of business of Mr Crass Cheseham, he strode just as smartly over…