All he wanted was to place child and self on a sound financial footing, and as he reached Oofy's flat and pressed the bell, he was convinced that the thing was in the bag.
In a less sanguine frame of mind, he might have been discouraged by the fact that the infant was looking more than ever like some mass-assassin who has been blackballed by the Devil's Island Social and Outing Club as unfit to associate with the members; but his experience with Charles Pikelet and the policeman had shown him that this was how all babies of that age looked, and he had no reason to suppose tha the one in "Tiny Fingers" had been any different The only thing Mrs. Bingo had stressed about the latter had been its pink toes, and no doubt Algernon, Aubrey, if called upon to do so, could swing as pink a toe as the next child.
(from Eggs Beans and Crumpets, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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