The camel died quite suddenly on the second day, and Selena
fretted sulkily and, buffing her already impeccable nails -- not
for the first time since the journey began -- pondered snidely
if this would dissolve into a vignette of minor inconveniences
like all the other holidays spent with Basil.
-- from It was a dark and stormy night: the best (?)
from the Bulwer-Lytton Contest