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''TRIAGO'' (''waving paper''): A tract from a brother clerk in America. <br> | ''TRIAGO'' (''waving paper''): A tract from a brother clerk in America. <br> | ||
''HERCULIO'': Cripes abroad. Grim tidings?<br> | ''HERCULIO'': Cripes abroad. Grim tidings?<br> | ||
''TRIAGO'': Forsooth: it wears | ''TRIAGO'': Forsooth: it wears the colours of a fight. <br> | ||
A wordscape stain’d with tightly kernèd face <br> | A wordscape stain’d with tightly kernèd face <br> | ||
And girded round with fontish weaponry <br> | And girded round with fontish weaponry. <br> | ||
''HERCULIO'' (''snatching the document''): Verily, convenantry this | ''HERCULIO'' (''snatching the document''): Verily, convenantry this dark speaks <br> | ||
Of litiginous untrust: wherefore such cruel indemnities? <br> | Of litiginous untrust: wherefore such cruel indemnities? <br> | ||
Wherefore such a want of fun? <br> | Wherefore such a want of fun? <br> | ||
A merchant wrapp’d with better sense <br> | A merchant wrapp’d with better sense <br> | ||
Wouldst just as soon injunct th’orbiting sun! <br> | Wouldst just as soon injunct th’orbiting sun! <br> | ||
What is this pact? Who | What is this pact, [[Triago]]? Who demands such fearsome consequence? <br> | ||
''TRIAGO'': An entente of secrecy, no more. <br> | ''TRIAGO'': An entente of secrecy, no more. <br> | ||
''HERCULIO'': Forsooth, my deceitful ears mislead. <br> | ''HERCULIO'': Forsooth, my deceitful ears mislead. <br> | ||
Say it again, my friend, what didst thou say? <br> | Say it again, my friend, what didst thou say? <br> | ||
''TRIAGO'': A trifling confi, My Lord, no more. An N.D.A. <br> | ''TRIAGO'': A trifling confi, My Lord, no more. An N.D.A. <br> | ||
:—{{buchstein}}, {{dsh}} | :—{{buchstein}}, {{dsh}}}} | ||
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Once in a long while<ref>Once every three or four days, about.</ref> over the sort of long, inglorious career most people have in the finance industry, you see a giveaway. A tell: a knowing look, a sly wink, fingers crossed behind the back, a stray wire, a black-clad stage-hand scampering away a moment too late to beat the rising curtain — just enough to wonder: is this whole thing, secretly, a gigantic ''have''? Are we stooges? Have we all been fitted up, Truman Burbank-style, in some epochal, multi-decade-long [[Game For A Laugh]]? Is the creator playing with us for his sport, like flies to wanton boys? | Once in a long while<ref>Once every three or four days, about.</ref> over the sort of long, inglorious career most people have in the finance industry, you see a giveaway. A tell: a knowing look, a sly wink, fingers crossed behind the back, a stray wire, a black-clad stage-hand scampering away a moment too late to beat the rising curtain — just enough to wonder: is this whole thing, secretly, a gigantic ''have''? Are we stooges? Have we all been fitted up, Truman Burbank-style, in some epochal, multi-decade-long [[Game For A Laugh]]? Is the creator playing with us for his sport, like flies to wanton boys? | ||