Sir Raymond Bastable on the short end of the stick

There is a type of man who, however rich he be, has a sturdy distaste for paying out large sums of money for nothing, and it was to this section of humanity that the eminent barrister belonged. Lord Ickenham mourned in spirit for his old friend's distress. Too bad, he felt, that when you started spreading sweetness and light, you so often found that there was not enough to go around and that somebody had to be left out of the distribution.

(from Cocktail Time, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)