“I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.”

—  P.G. Wodehouse, book The Inimitable Jeeves

The Inimitable Jeeves (1923)

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