“And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.”

— P.G. Wodehouse, book Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954)

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