"Hullo-ullo-ullo! There you are! I mean to say, what?"
He was conscious, as was his custom in her presence, of a warm, prickly sensation in the small of the back. Some kind of elephantiasis seemed to have attacked his hands and feet, swelling them to enormous proportions. He wished profoundly that he could get rid of his habit of helping with nervous laughter whenever he encountered the girl of his dreams. It was calculated to give her a wrong impression of a chap - make her think him a fearful chump and what not!
(from A Damsel In Distress, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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