Sorrow in Sunlight by Ronald Firbank

But although by the grace of Providence the city of Cuna-Cuna had been spared, other parts of the island had sustained irremediable loss. In the Province of Casuby, beyond the May Day Mountains, many a fair banana or sugar estate had been pitifully wrecked, yet what caused perhaps the widest regret among the Cucan public was the destruction of the famous convent of Sasabonsam. One of the beauties of the island, one of the gems of tropic architecture, celebrated, made immortal (in _The Picnic_) by the Poet Marcella, had disappeared. A Relief fund for those afflicted had at once been started, and, as if this were not enough, the doors of the Villa Alba were about to be thrown open for "An Evening of Song and Gala" in the causes of charity.

"Prancing Nigger, dis an event to take exvantage ob; dis not a lil t'ing, love, to be sneezed at at all," Mrs. Mouth eagerly said upon hearing the news, and she had gone about ever since, reciting the names in the list of Patronesses, including that of the Cucan Archbishop.