Word: aspic
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...human being during many years of close intimacy. You have Conrad hypnotizing a country grocer into giving him three years unlimited credit, throwing teacups into the fire when heated by argument with a lady, sailing up the Thames in a steam launch with cigars, champagne, plovers' eggs in aspic. Mortared with the egotism of Mr. Ford, who jauntily refers to himself as "the finest stylist in England," the blocks fall into place; and slowly there looms up the spirit of Joseph Conrad, who in all the world would have loved nothing better than to have singed the king of Spain...