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Aux deux Colonnes

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<I’m just going to feed Adolphe.’ I point to a little reticule of buns hung from my arm. ‘Adolphe is my pet unicorn.’>

‘Unicorn!’ Adolphe interrupts, banging his horns with his left hoof. ‘I’m a fucking goat, if you don’t mind!’ His voice is muffled and doesn’t have authority.

‘It says here “unicorn”, but I could only get a goat’s costume, so shut up and don’t interrupt, you silly goat.’

Adolphe sniffs ostentatiously and is silent. I suppress more giggles and read on.

<He is such a dear. Milk white all over> – oh dear, the suit has black patches. Sorry. Didn’t notice in time. The guy in the fancy dress promised a unicorn and then dumped a pie-balled goat on me.

<Anyway, milk white all over except his black patches and eyes, rose mouth and nostrils, and scarlet John.>

I look up at Adolphe, take a make-up set from my bag and move towards his eye

Clive La Pensee

How much more fun can they extract from Beardsley's remarkable piece. More to come and some other interludes, too. And finally the crooks pop out the woodwork to take their share of Connie's new-found freedom.

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