Sunday, March 31, 2019

Piercing glance

"Yes, I could see that, however little you showed it, you found Connie overpowering. Long association has made me immune, but she does take the stuffing out of most people. Somebody wrote a story years ago entitled The Bird With The Difficult Eye, and I have always thought the author must have had Connie in mind. She takes after my late father, a man who could open an oyster at sixty paces with a single glance."

(from A Pelican At Blandings, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)

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