"Corky, old horse, I have in my time extracted various sums of money from various people, and some of them have given cheerfully of theri abundance and others have unbelted in a manner that you might call wry. But never in the whole of my career have I beheld a fellow human being cough up in quite the spirit that his bloke Joe the Lawyer did. He was a short-necked man, and there was one moment when I thought his blood-pressure was going to be too much for him. He turned a rather vivid shade of maroon, and his lips trembled as if he were praying. But in the end he dipped into the satchel and counted out the money."
(from "The Level Business Head," by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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