"Does she remind you of anyone?" the Duke proceeded. It was only inadvertently that he ever allowed anyone to finish a sentence. "I ask because a fellow I know, an American fellow called Trout, says she's the image of his third wife, while Emsworth insists that she has a distinct look of that pig of his."
"I was thinking -"
"Something about the expression in her eyes, he said, and the way she's lying. He said he had seen his pig lying like that a hundred times. It does it after a heavy meal."
"What I was going to say - "
"And oddly enough I notice quite a resemblance to our vicar's wife down in Wiltshire. Only the face, of course, for I never saw her lying in the nude on a mossy bank. I doubt if the vicar would let her."
(from A Pelican At Blandings, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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