Gally with his back up

"Well, let me tell you," said the Hon Galahad, once more maltreating the billiard table, "that I do care. That girl's mother was the only woman I ever loved, and I don't propose to have her daughter's happiness ruined by any sawn-off young half-portion with a face like a strawberry ice who takes the notion into his beastly turnip of a head to play fast and loose with her. Understand that!"

(from Heavy Weather, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)

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