bell-brew

Updated: May 14, 2025

But that other is a devil of a laugh, mostly made of chuckles that seem to bubble off a Bell-brew of disillusionment, and you get the impression that he is laughing at himself cynically laying bare the vanity and fallibility of his own mental processes and forecasting self-discipline. There is no mirth in it, although there is amusement; no anger, although immeasurable scorn.

Talbot Mundy - Affair in Araby