"Gooch," he said, "You are not one of those thoughtless butterflies, I hope, who go about breaking girls' hearts?"
"No, no," aid John Gooch, learning for the first time that this was what butterflies did.
"You are not one of those men who win a good girl's love and then ride away with a light laugh?"
John Gooch said he certainly was not. He would not dream of laughing, even lightly, at any girl. Besides, he added, he could not ride. He had once had three lessons in the Park, but had not seemed to be able to get the knack.
(from Those In Peril on the Tee, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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