[Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock]@TWC D-Link bookArcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich CHAPTER ONE: A Little Dinner with Mr 31/37
I am absolutely convinced, sir, that our modern civilization will end in a great social catastrophe.
Mark what I say"-- and here Mr.Fyshe became exceedingly impressive--"a great social catastrophe.
Some of us may not live to see it, perhaps; but you, for instance, Furlong, are a younger man; you certainly will." But here Mr.Fyshe was understating the case.
They were all going to live to see it, right on the spot. For it was just at this moment, when Mr.Fyshe was talking of the social catastrophe and explaining with flashing eyes that it was bound to come, that it came; and when it came it lit, of all places in the world, right there in the private dining-room of the Mausoleum Club. For the gloomy head waiter re-entered and leaned over the back of Mr. Fyshe's chair and whispered to him. "Eh? what ?" said Mr.Fyshe. The head waiter, his features stricken with inward agony, whispered again. "The infernal, damn scoundrels!" said Mr.Fyshe, starting back in his chair.
"On strike: in this club! It's an outrage!" "I'm very sorry sir.
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