Attempts to resolve the Quandary:
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Mrs. Hornbeam, the housekeeper, dismissed Laura, the chambermaid, with all the pomp and circumstance regnant upon cashiering an high officer from the Army: in front of the entire house staff, Laura's cap was swept off her head, her mops and dusters were broken across Mrs. Hornbeam's knee, her lace collar was ripped from her dress, and her letters of reference were torn in half as her whilom friends and erstwhile inferiors looked on in horror, not to mention disbelief that someone in her position would have tried to blackmail you-know-who. (by cusheamus)
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Whilom, as olde Chaucer once did spew,
Ther was a cashier highte you-know-who;
Of banke counters he was so regnant,
And in his tyme swich a miscreant,
That lordes would his name gladlie wis -
Ful many a riche bastard didde he dis. (by Et Seqq)
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Staff: as the owner and king regnant of The Bibliomane's Delight, I yesterday exercised my monarchic authority in cashiering you-know-who, that embezzler of books and bills who is now our whilom cashier, and I'll be working the register myself, henceforth. (by Rudi)