Monday, May 27, 2013

Brunhilde?

Delivered on the mat at 1:25, she proved to be an upstanding light-heavyweight of some thirty summers, with a commanding eye and a square chin which I, personally, would have steered clear of. She seemed to me a good deal like what Cleopatra would have been after going in too freely for the starches and cereals.  I don't know why it is, but women who have anything to do with Opera, even if they're only studying for it, always appear to run to surplus poundage.

(from Very Good, Jeeves, by Sir P. G. Wodehouse)

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