[The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wrecker CHAPTER VII 23/44
Dance on the elastic sward.
Home again in the Bright Evening Hours.
Manager and Honorary Steward, H.Loudon Dodd, Esq., the well-known connoisseur.'" Singular how a man runs from Scylla to Charybdis! I was so intent on securing the disappearance of a single epithet that I accepted the rest of the advertisement and all that it involved without discussion.
So it befell that the words "well-known connoisseur" were deleted; but that H.Loudon Dodd became manager and honorary steward of Pinkerton's Hebdomadary Picnics, soon shortened, by popular consent, to the Dromedary. By eight o'clock, any Sunday morning, I was to be observed by an admiring public on the wharf.
The garb and attributes of sacrifice consisted of a black frock coat, rosetted, its pockets bulging with sweetmeats and inferior cigars, trousers of light blue, a silk hat like a reflector, and a varnished wand.
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