Purkiss looked at him fishily. Nature havign made it impossible or him to look at anyone otherwise, he being a man with a face like a halibut.
"Story?"
Bingo explained the circumstances. He said that he was the author of "Tibby's Wonderful Adventure" in the current issue, and Purkiss Oh-yes-ed and said he had read it with considrable interest, and Bingo oh-thanks-ed and simpered coyly, and then there was a rather long silence.
"Well, how about the emolument?" said Bingo at length, getting down to the res.
Purkiss started. The fishy glitter in his eye became intensified. He looked like a halibut which has just been asked by another halibut to lend it a couple of quid till next Wednesday.
(from "TheWord in Season," by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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