Word: sebastians
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...Sebastian's Uncle Eustace, a wealthy art collector with a failing heart, was on the phone listening to Laurina, his ex-mistress, read aloud from his old love letters. "You have the power," she read, "of arousing desires that are infinite and . . . can never be assuaged by ... a merely finite body." "Golly!" said Eustace, absently stroking his current Mistress Mimi, "did I say that...
...Youthful Sebastian was far from such thoughts when he reached Florence. He had never dreamed of meeting such wicked, thrilling people. His father was a gruff leftish idealist who thought it would be immoral to buy his son evening clothes. But gorgeous Mrs. Thwale gave Sebastian a look that made his head swim, and Uncle Eustace not only promised to give him a valuable Degas drawing but evening clothes as well...
...butler wept. Sebastian sighed: "Now I won't get my evening clothes." "Was it Marcus Aurelius or Julius Caesar . . . who passed on in the W.C.?" inquired Mrs. Gamble. She arranged a seance at once...
...circle, holding hands. "Tell [Eustace] we're waiting," snapped Mrs. Gamble. Gamble "Only just come over," squeaked the medium. "Seems he doesn't rightly know he's passed on." In the darkness, Mrs. Thwale crooked her forefinger and traced the letters L O V E on Sebastian's palm. Then she traced a few other, unprintable, four-letter words. "Is it true?" she asked Eustace, "that where you are, there isn't any marrying?" "Backwards and downwards, Christian soldiers," retorted Eustace sarcastically...
...Nephew Sebastian, meanwhile, was tossing miserably on his bed one night when the latch clicked and he was enveloped in an aroma of "spring freshness and musky animality." It was Mrs. Thwale. " 'Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love,'" she quoted later, huskily. Then she married Paul De Vries, the breakfast-food heir...