"Quicksilver"

[fiefoe]

I'm starting to lose track of who's who:

• Those orbs flank a hawkish nose that nearly conceals the slot-like mouth of a miser biting down on a suspect coin. His ears are elongated and have grown a radiant fringe of lanugo. The imbalance between his organs of input and output seems to say that he sees and knows more than he'll say.
• "I thought I detected that the lady's superb French was enlivened and invigorated by the firm sure tread of an Anglo-Saxon cadence."
• He returned, biting off the syllables one by one, like a crocodile working its way up an oar.
  

Tenuously seasonal:
__ Like jumping fish, (Americans) go about difficult matters with bloodless ease.
__ The entire point of gifts is to be unnecessary.
__ During the long winter, Jack had learned that a dress had more parts, technical zargon, and operating procedures associated with it than a flintlock.

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