He’s having a wank!

This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them, for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so […] as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people as possible.

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In the middle of the nave was erected a magnificent jube, where the throne of Charles X. was placed.