Lola stamped her foot, and shouted after him, ‘Damned papist hypocrite!’ and at this the sycophantic crowd in the ante-chamber broke out in a chorus of sympathy and reproach.
‘Jesuit impertinence!’
‘Intolerable affront!’
‘Scandalous insolence!’
‘Silly old bastard’ (this was Starnberg’s contribution.)
‘Impossible arrogance of these prelates,’ says a stout, florid man near me.
‘I’m Church of England myself,’ says I.
Royal Flash, p.79, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.
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