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...ones who seemed to be the superior race. Beside them the pallid little Englishmen dressed in the dull sobriety of bank clerks were like subordinate assistants. Even King George in morning coat minus the accustomed white carnation in his buttonhole, was more like a company director than a monarch...
...first time since he nearly died of pneumonia two years ago, George V last week opened Parliament. Bareheaded the venerable monarch drove with Queen Mary from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords, arrived snuffling. Repeatedly during the majestic procedure His Majesty cleared his throat as though it tickled. Once he broke a sentence in the middle to cough...
Stealthily the "Black Eagle" moved, was off with a roar before his intention was suspected. In the Abyssinian capital, New Flower, the sound of one airplane is enough to make everyone run out of doors, even the Emperor. Thus the wrathful monarch was watching when his Black Eagle turned into a Black Crow, lost control of his ship at an altitude of 100 ft., crashed in a mass of tangled wreckage. "Spite work!" cried Colonel Julian emerging uninjured from the mess. "That Frenchman who commanded the Abyssinian Air Force before I took command tampered with my ship. Spite work...
...this beast "safe?" Should a 65-year-old monarch ride a prancing, snorting cavalry mount? Discreet inquiry revealed that Steed B102 was nicknamed, by the cavalrymen who were his intimates, "Old Armchair...
...career as a peer commenced. Then outside the Abbey he abruptly encounters Anquetil, returned from the jungle to marry Viola on the strength of a six-year correspondence. Anquetil renews his invitation for an exploring expedition. Sebastian accepts. The story ends with an intimation that under the new monarch will come new manners, and the brilliant, flighty society that Sebastian is renouncing has nearly run its course...