Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet wanted very much to be an ethical parrot, and also to be recognised as such. For this, or perhaps rather these, reasons, he determined that he would follow the advice of Mr Ian Corby, and place his renewed acquaintance with Mrs Arabella Melopsittaca upon a respectable footing. —
Ian Corby, Hawksmoor Perroquet
Very soon after arriving at this determination, Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet undertook the removal of Mrs Arabella Melopsittaca and Miss Isolde Acridotheres from the boutique hotel in Hotwells in which they had been staying under his protection. His long-suffering spouse and her daughter very promptly found themselves installed in a most sumptuous apartment in a red-brick warehouse conversion in Southville, this being another of Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet’s architectural designs. The Mayor also moved his own effects into this nest, and very soon was pleased to publish to the world his acknowledgement of the spousal nature of the ties that bound him to Mrs Arabella Melopsittaca, although very little if anything seems to have been said on the subject of their original sundering. —
Hotwells, Southville
It might be thought that these actions of the Mayor’s, in bringing about an end to the sufferings of Mrs Arabella Melopsittaca, and the restoration of her dignity, might also have marked the conclusion of matters in the present chronicle insofar as they relate to that matron. However, to reckon thus is to reckon without taking into account two further matters, both of which greatly preoccupied her husband. —
Arabella Melopsittaca
“Oho! Ah’ll be scunnered if his Wurrrshipfuleness be no payin’ court to the meesterius Miss B.” —
Bianca Columbina
Withal, the speaker was of a cast wherein discretion alloyed curiosity, and so that entity left the narratorial speculum to pursue alone his Wurrrshipfuleness across the Downs to the boutique hotel in Westbury-on-Trym. —
Westbury-on-Trym
Mr Hawksmoor Perroquet found Miss Bianca Columbina as he normally found her, which is to say poking that immaculate white head of hers through the gap afforded by the unreplaced pane in the aviary. —
Aviary, Bianca Columbina
“I have taken counsel,” he said with an air of grim finality, “and the advice which I have been given is that, while I have a wife yet living, I must honour my sacred vows according to the precepts of the Lex Matrimonia Avum handed down through the numberless generations of the flocked folk. In short, my dear, I must withdraw my suit which I have made to be your husband, and we must part.” —
Lex Matrimonia Avum
As, reflecting on these grave matters, the Mayor of Bristol flapped back across Durdham Downs, his passage was once more observed by the pair of black eyes, which looked up from the entrails of the corpsed vole into which the black beak in front of them had been poking. —
Durdham Downs, Bristol
The being so peculiarly compared to Ariosto’s cuckolded knight flapped away then towards Clifton, and disappeared over the lip of Blackboy Hill. The owner of the black eyes and the black beak and the broguish voice took wing then himself, and flapped away in the general direction of Westbury-on-Trim. —
Clifton
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