anti-climatically

Updated: May 2, 2025

I drank the remainder of my absinthe and lit a cigarette. I fell back on the manifest lunacy of the Madagascar voyage. I urged, somewhat anti-climatically after my impassioned harangue, its discomfort. "You'll be the fifth wheel to a coach. Your petticoats, my dear, will always be in the way." "I needn't wear petticoats," said Liosha.

William John Locke - Jaffery