Sir Hearty Luncheon, finding himself even more than usually prostrated by the bearing of unbearable cant, nonetheless endured a succession of barbarian supplicants, who interrupted his catatonic contemplation of the green figures marching across the screen and his listless buying and fretful selling of money, and against whom he was in consequence sorely tempted to bar the gates. —
Cant, Sir Hearty Luncheon
By a considerable margin, the most disgusting of the visitors to the Pierpont Morgan of Anchor Road were Mr Francis MacMahon and Lord Snatch, who sought an audience together. Concerning the latter, while he may not have been a barbarian by birth, he most certainly was one by adoption. For, much as William of Wykeham would have it that manners makyth man, so most assuredly and ineluctably doth the absence thereof the man unmake. —
Lord Snatch, Francis MacMahon, Anchor Road, Sir Hearty Luncheon
“Would you two gentlemen be so good as to state your business with me,” sniffed the Lord Curzon of provincial finance, looking at their beer, and then added, inevitably, “only do please spare me the cant, for I never did bear the cant.” —
Cant
Sir Hearty Luncheon with those impassive hooded eyes of his witnessed their going. There followed, inevitably, one of those interludes during which he stared catatonically at the green figures marching across his screen, and then set to the listless buying of money, the fretful selling of money distinct from the money which he had just listlessly bought, the listless buying of the money he had just fretfully sold, and finally the fretful selling of the money he had originally and listlessly bought. Following the conclusion of these transactions, he briefly and bitterly considered the sunlit existence of Lord Handjob, with his racehorses and showgirls. Finally, he pressed a button, and for reasons obscure even to himself ordered one of his exquisitely tailored minions with white teeth to bid Mr Jagtar Singh to ready the Lexus. —
Lexus
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