Our Lady of Darkness

From two till four o'clock on any summer afternoon during the penultimate decade of the last century, the Right Honourable Gustavus Hilary George, third Viscount Murk, Baron Brindle and Knight of the Stews, with orders of demerit innumerable-and, over his quarterings, that bar-sinister which would appear to be designed for emphasis of the fact that the word rank has a double meaning-might be seen (in emulation of a more notable belswagger) ogling the ladies from the verandah of his house in...