Word: afrodisio
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...Prospects Are Pleasing, is a rachitic young Dublin clerk who dreams of being "the Anointed, the Victim, and, at the same time, the Hero" in the "march for a free Ireland." Dispatched to London on a secret mission to recover a canvas of the late Spanish painter, Afrodisio Lafuente y Chaos, that the Dublin press has loudly and incorrectly trumpeted as Ireland's own, Tommy promptly funks it and is rescued by a Wodehousian young Englishman named Felix Horniman. Chiefly because Tommy reminds him of a dyspeptic monkey he once befriended in India, Felix casually pinches the picture...