Buffet for Unwelcome Guests
“Mrs. Dorinda Jones sat back, very small and exquisite in the corner of her taxi cab, fastidiously holding her damp umbrella. The traffic was jammed solid but she was sufficiently entertained (between uneasy glances at the steadily ticking meter) by contemplation of a rather divine pair of boots in a shop across the road—and the new nursing home in process of completion, a little ahead and to the left of her.
The nursing home was being financed by Arab oil, a magnificent edifice apparently hewn ...from a block of gleaming black marble, with lots of lovely curlicues in what was doubtless solid gold. She was amused to observe with what opportunist haste a very grand new restaurant had been opened next door to it—apparently for an Arab clientele, for dozens of white-robed gentlemen were at this very moment pouring out, evidently from some celebration luncheon. The commissionaire, enormously impressive in scarlet coat, peaked cap and prodigious brass buttons, was dashing from the door of one magnificent car to another, crumpling into a white cotton palm the unconsidered five and even ten pound notes.MoreLess
The nursing home was being financed by Arab oil, a magnificent edifice apparently hewn ...from a block of gleaming black marble, with lots of lovely curlicues in what was doubtless solid gold. She was amused to observe with what opportunist haste a very grand new restaurant had been opened next door to it—apparently for an Arab clientele, for dozens of white-robed gentlemen were at this very moment pouring out, evidently from some celebration luncheon. The commissionaire, enormously impressive in scarlet coat, peaked cap and prodigious brass buttons, was dashing from the door of one magnificent car to another, crumpling into a white cotton palm the unconsidered five and even ten pound notes.MoreLess
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