Harriet Hume: a London Fantasy
“Had he not! He had obtained the vile George Filiaepandarus a baronetcy to help him dupe the simpletons of England with prospectuses promising much gold to those who would lay out their money in such enterprises as the London Hills Exploitation Company, Ltd. (which had for objects, to send to Covent Garden the primroses of Primrose Hill and the lavender of Lavender Hill, and to market to cooks and chemists the saffron from the crocuses on Saffron Hill, with as side issue the felling of the tall ...redwoods of Westbourne Grove.) “For services rendered during the Great War,” the patent of nobility had run, and there had been this and that of questioning in the House concerning the right gloss of that phrase; and it had been stated (and the Speaker, whom we all know to be impartial, had quashed all ribaldry) that what England owed Sir George was per contra that foresight which had made him, through the early years of the War, push on in despite of Dora’s building regulation with those orchid-houses which were later mistaken by the Zeppelin crews for the Crystal Palace.MoreLess
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