Vincent van Gogh Lane with Poplars painting

Vincent van Gogh Lane with Poplars paintingGeorge Frederick Watts Orpheus and Eurydice detail paintingUnknown Artist The SunFlowers painting
There's nothing strange in that; it is
among a dean's responsibilities.
He set out by himself, then? Please speak faster.

BROTHER-IN-LAW: Alone he wasn't. Besides the wagonmaster
he took his secretary --quite a peach,
she was --his valet, P. R. man, and speech-
writer. Five men and the girl, and all
but one was killed.

TALIPED: I guess it was the doll
who got away?

BROTHER-IN-LAW: I wish she had, old pal; it
should have been the girl and not the valet
who escaped. The way that kid could walk!

TALIPED: All right, all right; forget her. Did you talk
to this one chap, this valet who got away?

BROTHER-IN-LAW:I did. But all the yellow wretch could say
for himself was that he wished he'd never been
promoted from his old job by the Dean --
he'd used to be a shepherd, and he said
he wished he'd never valeted instead.
I guess he had no stomach for such snobbery. . .

TALIPED: Flunk his stomach! Was it highway robbery,