It was going to be a super-busy weekend at the palace—with the royal babies' official gender reveals today and the baby showers tomorrow.

a reptile race or crew    reptile vices

Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey.

Mr. Hawley's disgust at the notion of the Pioneer being edited by an emissary, and of Brooke becoming actively political—as if a tortoise of desultory pursuits should protrude its small head ambitiously and become rampant—was hardly equal to the annoyance felt by some members of Mr. Brooke's own family.