Philippa Cafferty dwelt in comfort, joy, and precarious proximity to the Plimsoll Line, aboard the dainty barge Phaeacia. The vessel in question was moored immovably to a jetty on the North Bank of the Avon, just across the Hotwells Road from Pex ’n’ Quads, where it pleased Miss Cafferty vey occasionally indeed to attend the classes - of somewhat questionable propriety - given by that notably snake-hipped and lithe gentleman Ageing Hippus the Yoga God. —
Philippa Cafferty, The Avon, Phaeacia
Miss Cafferty was by all and sundry considered sufficiently winsome to flirt with, and eke to take the orders of the corpulent corporate lawyers and functioningly alcoholic tax sharks who made up the clientele of the Toreau et Ours, nearby in Millennium Square. Being of a gregarious disposition, she by no means endured a life without society, for the maidens Enematopoeia and Clismathea kept her company aboard the Phaeacia, and so did betimes her swain, Master Ben D’Oeuvre, a greasy little knave wallowing as yet in the dregs of his fourth decade, who each forenoon got upon his bicycle and disappeared for hours on end, though who wot where. —
Enematopoeia, Clismathea
The riparian idyll of the satyr and fawns aforementioned was in no whit diminished by the ambrosia upon which they betimes did feed, which only ever did bestow upon them the soothing presentiments of cosiness and warmth, and a certain quality - equally soothing - of moral insouciance. Satyr and fawns were unanimous and insistent - as yet not insupportably so - in regarding their shared predilection as a hobby, and no more pernicious than the rum sipped by jolly jack tars and calypso islanders, or the hemp which gentlemen of the latter persuasion did incline to smeauque. —
Ambrosia
“God no, Pippin,” drawled Lord Snatch from where he sunbathed nude upon the foredeck’s official beanbag, “only a villanelle or two: —
Lord Snatch
“Must we then forsake the comfort of the barque for the privations of your accursed dinghy? Set sail on that swart ocean? Say it is not so.” —
Dinghy
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