Sentence
The Threehundredandninetyseventh
Despite the factious
bickering between the different parties involved in a Modern,
Privatised, Railway system, which had caused the trip by the
world-famous and completely restored Flying Scotsman to be
cancelled (in case it was too wide for the platforms, too long, too
heavy, too big, too fumey, too smelly, too steamy, too this and too
that, “for we have not had sufficient time to measure all the
relevant sections of the route,” said a Scotrail Spokesman,
referring to the scheduled run on the new Borders Line organised by
Steam Dreams and planned over a period of three years, obviously
insufficient time for detailed measurements to be done by Network
Rail, even though the Union of South Africa had brought the
Queen for the official opening in July) and just as suddenly
approved, 48 hours apparently sufficient for their relevant safety
checks to be undertaken, and the widespread public and political
anger to be registered and acted upon, and now the mighty locomotive
was
pulling in to the terminus at Tweedbank Station, and Aunt Daphne
was wafting the air with her lavender scented hankie, Aunt Maude laid
aside her book of puzzles' having completed the quincunx (set by that
devilishly astute Norman Norman) and Auntie Crist studiously avoided
gazing at the elderly gentleman in the far corner of the carriage,
whose warty botryoidal face resembled nothing other than a a rather
weighty bunch of male genitals (oh, she knew him, Sir Clement Danes,
Regius Professor of Mediaeval Architecture, 'thinks that just because
he has a first, signed, edition of Ruskin's Stones of Venice
he is an afficionado,
Pah!
the
man's a mountebank, with his pince-nez and his effete little cane,'
oh yes, she knew him and loathed him) “look, look,” she cried,
“our darling nieces are all here,” and the three Aunts gathered
themselves together and squeezed out of the carriage, wishing they
had opted for First Class, and were then overwhelmed by the cheering
crowd
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