Pierre Auguste Renoir After The Bath 1888 painting

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And we are happy to meet them. But just at the moment my friend and I are rather hungry.”
“Yes,” said the underling with compassion. “We have heard of it in our papers. Your rations in England, your strikes. Here things are very expensive but there is plenty for all who pay, so our people do not strike but work hard to become rich. It is better so, no?”
“Perhaps. We must have a talk about it some time. But at the moment it is not so much the general economic question as a personal immediate need —”
“We arrive,” said the underling. “Here is the Ministry.”
Like much modern Neutralian building the Ministry was unfinished, but it was conceived in severe one-party style. A portico of unembellished columns, a vast, blank doorway, a bas-relief symbolizing Revolution and Youth and Technical Progress and the National Genius. Inside, a staircase. On the staircase was a less predictable feature; ranged on either side like playing-cards, like a startling hand composed entirely of Kings and Knaves, stood ascending ranks of trumpeters aged from sixty to sixteen, dressed in the tabards of medieval