P. G. Wodehouse,
A Damsel in Distress — Chapter 16
(1919)
“ It is absurd!""You needn't tell me that," said George. Really, it was only the fact that people seemed to go out of their way to call at his cottage and tell him that Maud loved him that kept him from feeling his cause perfectly hopeless. "It's incredible. It's a miracle.""You are a romantic young man, and you no doubt for the moment suppose that you are in love with her." ”
P. G. Wodehouse,
A Damsel in Distress — Chapter 16
(1919)
“ It seemed to George that such an entanglement could hardly be said to have begun, but he did not say so.Lord Marshmoreton resumed his remarks. Lady Caroline had sent him to the cottage to be stern, and his firm resolve to be stern lent his style of speech something of the measured solemnity and careful phrasing of his occasional orations in the House of Lords."I have no wish to be unduly hard upon the indiscretions of Youth. Youth is the period of Romance, when the heart rules the head. I myself was once a young man." ”
P. G. Wodehouse,
A Damsel in Distress — Chapter 16
(1919)
“ George's heart raced. Your lover is ever optimistic, and he could conceive of no errand that could have brought this man to his cottage unless he was charged with the delivery of a note from Maud. He spared a moment from his happiness to congratulate himself on having picked such an admirable go-between. ”
