I even went so far as to help myself, to myself’s own invitation (but with a polite (?) eh?) to a third cognac,
ALL JOKING ASIDE, M. LEBRIS WAS, AND IS, YAIR, an ace—I even went so far as to help myself, to myself’s own invitation (but with a polite (?) eh?) to a third cognac, which at the time I thought had mortified the romancier de police but he never even glanced my way as tho he was studying marks of my fingernails on the floor—(or lint) —
