[M]aybe his mother has promised him a mango or a moon-cake if he would be good; […]

Visiting what the programme pudically calls A famous rendezvous for beautiful women and wealthy lovers -- the kind of place which in simple old London forces half the police into evening dress, with what result to the more imaginative of our younger officers Parliament discusseth not -- the Cornet beheld at a night-club Mlle.

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Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!