Oxen of the Sun [14]

U14.356: Beau Mount and Lecher

“Well met they were, said Master Dixon, joyed, but harkee, young sir, better were they named Beau Mount and Lecher for, by my troth, of such a mingling much might come.”

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U14.1010: freeze them with horror ...

“But Malachias' tale began to freeze them with horror. He conjured up the scene before them. The secret panel beside the chimney slid back and in the recess appeared – Haines! Which of us did not feel his flesh creep! He had a portfolio full of Celtic literature in one hand, in the other a phial marked Poison. Surprise, horror, loathing were depicted on all faces while he eyed them with a ghostly grin.”

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U14.1182: Bass bottled

“During the past four minutes or thereabouts he had been staring hard at a certain amount of number one Bass bottled by Messrs Bass and Co at Burton-on-Trent which happened to be situated amongst a lot of others right opposite to where he was and which was certainly calculated to attract anyone's remark on account of its scarlet appearance.”

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U14.1221: Lafayette

Lafayette photograph

“… and that vigilant wanderer, soiled by the dust of travel and combat and stained by the mire of an indelible dishonour, but from whose steadfast and constant heart no lure or peril or threat or degradation could ever efface the image of that voluptuous loveliness which the inspired pencil of Lafayette has limned for ages yet to come.”

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U14.1324: Ulster bank

“He is older now (you and I may whisper it) and a trifle stooped in the shoulders yet in the whirligig of years a grave dignity has come to the conscious second accountant of the Ulster bank, College Green branch.”

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U.14.1547: Bovril

“Golly, whatten tunket's yon guy in the mackintosh? Dusty Rhodes. Peep at his wearables. By mighty! What's he got? Jubilee mutton. Bovril, by James. Wants it real bad.”