"Let Madeline Bassett become hep to what has occurred and there can be but one result. Gussie will get the bum's rush, and the bowed figure you will see shambling down the aisle at her side, while the customers reach for their hats and the organ plays 'The Voice That Breathed O'er Eden' will be that of Bertram Wilberforce Wooster."
"I didn't know your name was Wilberforce."
I explained that except in moments of great emotion one hushed it up.
(from The Mating Season, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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