CHAPTER FORTY-THREE




VIVE L'ENTENTE CORDIALE!





   Well I am aware that this is a second edition of Chapter XLIV. But did not the first performance deserve an encore? Good.


   Glabrous was Cardinal Mentula as an emu's oef, chauv from his nasence; I ditties you that there in the sub of this over, not is this not? 'Twas as the crane of an old marcher in the ledges of the Shepherd-Follies; but it redded like a spall of agnew at the point, or like the altered drake at the blood, when bezin was. The nayne was scarce grander than a jamb of pullet, but never an hom dressed himself pluss superb, and he brilled like a spey, the spey of Arthur, Excalibur, or like the spew of Nimrod. Yes, he flamboyed like a stoil, like an aster tumbling, nay, semblable to the solil at haught south, in stey.


   Perhaps we had better change the subject.