THE FUTURE Agghh! Part 14

A brief "interlude" prior to the installment of the third installation of the Rick Gallen Chronicles

"What a lovely chaldorstatedinnerreceptionfeast. I am so delighted that we have finally arrived in good company."
"Indeed darling, you shall'st meet many a fine personage to-night."
"Whom is that!?"
"Whom is whom?"
"That woman in the blue dress, over yonder there?"
"Ah, why that is Lady Dorrna, the one whom is the wife of the Chief High Privy Councilor, Lord Shiwlee."
"By Chaldro the Very Wise! Did'st She refused her husband's last name?...and such a lovely one at that!"
"Verily." His voice dropped to a hush but retained its absurdly stilted and feminine air, "some say that she is the daughter of the Grand Specter of the Sea, his worthiness Misefaius himself."
"Clarkton! Truly, do not say such things a-loud, or you could find yourself...very free and rather happy, forever and ever."
"Oh, you worry far too greatly. Come, let'st I acquaint thee with yonder Lady."

"Lady Dorrna?"
"Why...yes...?" she struggled
"Let'st I introduce my wife to thee, Mrs. Clarkton."
"My," said Mrs. Clarkton, "how fine a corset thee doest wear about thee bosom!"
"Why," "thank thee" [incessant panting] "I am always," "I require the vapours, if thee please'st."
Mr. Clarkton drew a vapour case from his coat pocket and passed it to the Lady, whose face had grown obscenely vital, far too flush for polite society.
Her more seemly paleness returning, the conversation continued.
"Mr. Clarkton," "I hear that" "thee'st be employed" "in the" "Ministry of Matters" "Geological and Occult"
"Yes, whom quite true my Lady"
"Then" "tell I," "are the tectonic" "plates" "really as stable" "as the Minister proclaim'st?"
"Indeed they are, why yes of course they are, they're fine." His cheeks and ear lobes suddenly shone red, like burning embers of deceit, and so shocked were the guests with his barbarically healthy demeanor that one Lady fainted, and Clarkton quickly departed the building, sure that the disobedience of his facial capillaries would result in his dismissal from the Ministry, perhaps even...public de-whigging.

(OP: Ben, January 6 2009)