Maxister

Maxister: noun. In the good old days, servants of the state used to be classified according to more important characteristics than the colour of their skin and the content of their character - their height. Politicians shorter than 160 centimetres (5.24934 feet or 0.000863931 nautical miles in the case of admirals) were classified as ministers, politicians between 160 and 180 centimetres (5.90551 feet or 0.000971922 nautical miles) were called mezzosters and those taller than 180 centimetres became maxisters. Note that the word maxister is not to be confused with a maxistir, which is a circular movement for the purpose of mixing with a magnitude of 0.1 on the Richter scale.  

Fragment XII

It was at that moment when something absolutely extraordinary happened. The ground started shaking, Lady Catherine toppled and a giant iron box appeared in front of Babbage without any attempt for justification by the great powers of the universe. As Mr Collins reached his hand out to Lady Catherine to lift her up, something even more extraordinary happened: he paused and instead of proceeding in his usual display of servility, observed how the doors of the vault opened and cold steam escaped the inside. Out stepped two quite elegant feet, followed by another two not so elegant feet and four feet that were appaling beyond description. 

"Caroline Bingley" exhaled Mr Darcy amazed. Indeed, Caroline Bingley stood in front of them with Mrs Hurst right behind her, Mr Hurst behind her and what seemed like a complete clone of Mr Hurst behind him.

"Horst, in fact," said Caroline in a very matter-of-fact tone, introducing her fiancé.

As Mr Horst came forward, Babbage turned pale. That paleness, however, soon gave way to a natural flush as he, with an air of complete exhileration, started sputtering and dancing around in joy. He grabbed Horst by the hand, shook it wildly and in disconnected phrases attempted to explain himself:

"Mr Horst! My long lost assistant! Former maxister to his majesty's cabinet! Oh dear oh dear!"