How do I know where you come from, and whether you are not some crapulent spy of one of those pestilential committees?"
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel"
Baroness Orczy
All thought of fear or deference was gone, she had nothing left but scorn for these two despicable creatures, the fat harpy and her crapulent consort who had battened so long upon her misery, who had held her in bondage to the most menial tasks of their wretched restaurant while they filched and hoarded the money paid them for giving her the care and the advantages that were her due.
"Red Masquerade"
Louis Joseph Vance