Chasing Time

“Next, we have the most noble recipient of the Order of the Garter, the Grand Cross of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Grand Cross of the Bath, the Victoria Cross and the lower grades of Knighthood, the leader of the anti-colonial movement, the bell-ringer of the East India Company, the hero of the Crimean War, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a lifelong dear friend of literary giants such as Dickens and Great Dumas, a steadfast supporter of scientific luminaries like Faraday and Darwin, having served as assistant under-secretary, deputy under-secretary, and permanent under-secretary in departments of the Home Office and the Navy Department of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the inaugural Cabinet Secretary and head of the civil service, the first graduate and most distinguished alumnus of our school. Please welcome Sir Arthur Hastings to deliver a speech on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of London.”
Arthur's gaze swept across the crowd before him, looking at the young faces and murmured, “Agares, what do you think I should say?”
The Red Devil's wraith hovered behind him, saliva almost dribbling from the corner of his mouth, “Look at these ignorant souls; they still worship you as a hero. Why not say something they'd like to hear?”
Arthur took a deep breath and let out a deafening roar, “Oxford is a bunch of whores' bastards!”
“Oh!!!!”
The audience erupted into thunderous applause.
“Cambridge is the same!” he added immediately.
The applause grew even more fervent...
(The protagonist, possessed by a devil, travels through 19th-century Britain in a world without magic)

The Shadow of Great Britain

As the saying goes, establishing a department is easy, dissolving one is difficult.


Perhaps the priests were truly considering the parish residents, wanting to reduce the security tax, but to the Home Office, this seemed like an encroachment on their power!


If you can dissolve Scotland Yard today, are you planning to dissolve our Home Office tomorrow?


Want to reduce taxes? Sure, you could go request Parliament to dissolve the Royal Navy, what use do they have burning so much money on military expenses every year?


Ask them to build two fewer ships, take the money for building battleships and subsidize the parish residents.


Arthur laughed at this point, and two mustached military officers were amused into roaring laughter by him.


Chapter 171: The Old Gentleman from Austria (4K)_2