So now we will dismiss this uninteresting young aristocrat, retaining merely his outer shell, the fashionable morning-coat, which Mr. Stenner, the gentleman, who had offered the wager, has quietly thrown across his arm and is conveying away for his own advantage.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 / Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
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Ambrose Bierce
