"Con-found those organs " said the Earl of Barmouth. "And frustrate their grinders," cried Viscount Diphoos. "They are such a nuisance, my boy." "True, oh sire," replied the viscount, who had the heels of his patent leather shoes on the library chimney-piece of the town mansion in Portland Place. He had reached that spot with difficulty, and was smoking a cigar, to calm his nerves for what he called the operation.
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