George was gazing at Molly's father as at some beautiful work of art - a superb painting, let us say - the sort of thing which connoisseurs fight for and which finally gets knocked down to Dr. Rosenbach for three hundred thousand dollars. Which will give the reader a rough idea of what love can do: for, considered in a calm and unbiased spirit, Sigsbee Waddington was little, if anything, to look at.
(from The Small Bachelor, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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