Thursday, April 14, 2016

Not the world's best-looking cop

The door opened, and Molly found herself gazing into the inflamed eyes of a policeman. She looked at him with surprise. She had never seen him before, and she rather felt that she would have preferred not to see him now: for he was far from being a pleasing sight. His nose, ears and eyes were a vivid red: and his straggling hair dripped wetly on to the floor. With the object of diminishing the agony caused by the pepper, Officer Garroway had for some time been holding his head under the tap in the kitchen: and he now looked exactly like the body which had been found after several days in the river. The one small point that differentiated him from a corpse was the fact that he was sneezing.

(from The Small Bachelor, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)

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