And directly they came together he began to talk with the kind intention of burying the awkwardness of failure under a heap of words.

It looked as if the great assault threatened for that night were going to fizzle out.

An inferior henchman of "that brute Cheeseman" was up boring mercilessly a very thin House with some shamelessly cooked statistics.

He, Toodles, hoped he would bore them into a count out every minute.

But then he might be only marking time to let that guzzling Cheeseman dine at his leisure.