Good lines: rubicund

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Good lines: rubicund

"Aunt Dahlia's face grew darker. Hunting, if indulged in regularly over a period of years, is a pastime that seldom fails to lend a fairly deepish tinge to the patient's complexion, and her best friends could not have denied that even at normal times the relative's map tended a little towards the crushed strawberry. But never had I seen it take on so pronounced a richness as now. She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression."

From Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse.

23 September 2009 in Books - early C20th. fiction, Good lines | Permalink

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Oh I do love a good Jeeves & Wooster, I think it is one of my comfort reads, I reach for a well thumbed copy in times of stress.

Posted by: Rebecca | 25 September 2009 at 07:34 PM

The master!

Posted by: Nan | 26 September 2009 at 12:58 AM

How about "I had already divined who was at the other end of the wire, my good and deserving Aunt Dahlia having a habit of talking on the telephone with the breezy vehemance of a hog caller in the Western states of America calling to his hogs to come and get it"

Much Obliged Jeeves

I am SO glad to have discovered PG Wodehouse!

Posted by: Elaine | 30 September 2009 at 04:26 PM

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