When not reeling about quite as uncontrollably as drunkards, the boys would gather to dine on these horrible wet-and-dry sandwiches, drinking the low-priced wine and noting with cogged humor how swiftly each seemed to fatten before the gazes of the others.
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Are the boys even making excursions aboard the Inconvenience anymore? Or did their assignment basically end when Lew Basnight was shipped off to Denver? Their entire assignment was to give access to the Fair from above for White City Investigations, right? Their mission having been cut short before the end of the fair by Lew's departure, the boys now have "resorted" to living in near squalor and drunken revelry while they await their next assignment, an assignment that was probably planned to start after the end of the Fair. Now they find themselves in a liminal waiting space, between the end of one mission cut short and the next not quite ready to begin, eating, drinking, and getting fat.
"horrible wet-and-dry sandwiches"
Barf.
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