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Edwardes said about diet, and I told him afterwards that he was an arch-humbug; but it turned out that he had been bothered all his life at least he said so by indigestion, and that at Wellingham he had lived on some peculiar biscuit for nearly a fortnight, which recalled to my mind what Ward had said to me about him.
This sounds like Futurism or the passionate patterns of the Cubists, but I assure you I've seen and tried to play the piano music of Satie. That he is an arch-humbug I shall neither maintain nor deny. After Schoenberg anything is possible in this vale of agonising dissonance.
The old arch-humbug was down upon me in ten minutes, examining me from crown to heel, and made the most unblushing report upon my general condition. He said I had a liver! I'll swear I hadn't before I went to Carlsbad, but I shouldn't be a bit surprised if I'd brought one back." And he tipped his tankard with a solemn face, before falling to work upon the Welsh rarebit which had just arrived.
Casanova the arch-humbug who had worked magic to delude the credulous determined there and then to work a miracle for Soradici.
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