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Lord Asquith gazed out across Whittle Square and sighed an impeccable sigh that brought a new thinness to his lips, a greater flare to his aristocratic nostrils. It was evident that his Lordship had recently been in attendance of something quite odorous.
"I have never witnessed anything so abysmal," he told Lady Asquith with dry authority. "That play has as much chance for a prolonged engagement as. as. " He flicked his case at the Whittle monument and its bronzed tenant at the top. ". as that chap up there has of flying to the moon. Even Sir Lawrence couldn't have saved it."