Saturday, May 25, 2013

How to get out of a bad engagement

"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 rock-bound coast. The fixture was scratched owing to events occurring which convinced the old boy that I was off my napper; and since then he has always had my name at the top of his list of 'Loonies I have Lunched With'."

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

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