Sentence The Onehundredandsixteenth 
And as The Lady rocked over the swell in the general direction of The Bass Rock – for those knowledgeable about the ways of the waves will be aware that the shortest distance between two points is not always a straight line, but rather a looping course which makes use of the currents not visible to landlubbers like Theresa, which means, me, also; and while that voyage of discovery progressed, in another, darker, less wholesome place, a person of evil intent for whom Gehenna, or Hades, would be too good a banishment, opened his eyes after his noctambulous wanderings in the byways of his mind, plotting skulduggery, which always brought him a whiff of olympicene and gave him his morning erection; but he reached out his hand and found his mobile, pressed a speed-dial number and presently heard the sound of a telephone ringing out, ringing out, and eventually he cancelled the call, frowning a little, but not unduly, for the person he had called was probably having a shower, or using the toilet; so he rang another number and got the same result; tried the first again, then the second, then the first for a third time – gave a pause as he lay back, telephone in hand and pondered, but not unduly, for there would be an obvious answer – they were just taking a while this morning but it was, after all, rather earlier than he would normally call; so he left it fifteen or twenty minutes, during which he himself showered and dressed; and dialled; by the time he had called both numbers three times and still got no response he was angry – at himself for expecting absolute obedience, at them for not giving him what he expected, “nay, required, nay again, demanded – for are they not mine to use, to abuse, to dispose of, mine,” and Martin Elginbrod dialled another number!
And as The Lady rocked over the swell in the general direction of The Bass Rock – for those knowledgeable about the ways of the waves will be aware that the shortest distance between two points is not always a straight line, but rather a looping course which makes use of the currents not visible to landlubbers like Theresa, which means, me, also; and while that voyage of discovery progressed, in another, darker, less wholesome place, a person of evil intent for whom Gehenna, or Hades, would be too good a banishment, opened his eyes after his noctambulous wanderings in the byways of his mind, plotting skulduggery, which always brought him a whiff of olympicene and gave him his morning erection; but he reached out his hand and found his mobile, pressed a speed-dial number and presently heard the sound of a telephone ringing out, ringing out, and eventually he cancelled the call, frowning a little, but not unduly, for the person he had called was probably having a shower, or using the toilet; so he rang another number and got the same result; tried the first again, then the second, then the first for a third time – gave a pause as he lay back, telephone in hand and pondered, but not unduly, for there would be an obvious answer – they were just taking a while this morning but it was, after all, rather earlier than he would normally call; so he left it fifteen or twenty minutes, during which he himself showered and dressed; and dialled; by the time he had called both numbers three times and still got no response he was angry – at himself for expecting absolute obedience, at them for not giving him what he expected, “nay, required, nay again, demanded – for are they not mine to use, to abuse, to dispose of, mine,” and Martin Elginbrod dialled another number!
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