“A young man with dark circles under his eyes was propping himself up against a penny-in-the-slot machine. An undertaker, passing at that moment, would have looked at this young man sharply, scenting business. So would a buzzard.”

— P.G. Wodehouse, book The Luck of the Bodkins

The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)

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English author 1881–1975

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