verado's

Updated: June 16, 2025

Through the mist of smoke, with shoulders hunched, elbows and knees crooked out, cigar protruding, beak-ways, below his nose, and the crimson collar of his smoking jacket buttoned close as plumage on his breast, he looked a little like a gorgeous bird. "They do you awfully well," he said. A voice from the chair on Shelton's right replied, "They do you better at Verado's."

John Galsworthy - The Island Pharisees