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 footman to tell the Swiss gate porter to instruct the French chauffeur to come with the Rolls-Royce.

“Step on your gas, Gastong! The Savoy! 'Urry up, sonny!”

And shortly afterwards, the big car was purring to ward the Embankment and to the strident London caravanserai where to-day the Peerage and the Beerage, Montana Copper Kings and South African Diamond Magnates, Clyde Ship Builders and Omaha Pork Specialists rub elbows and swap drinks and lies—and where once the Black Prince competed in chivalry with the captive King John of France, and where Chaucer was married to the Lady Philippa de Ruet, with John o' Gaunt playing best man.