Цитаты из книги автора P. G. Wodehouse The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories

putting his fortune to the test.

would be sacked instanter

She had defined his own trade to a nicety.

I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences

There were flaws in each.

You've got a cinch. You've only got to hand a story to the police. Any old tale will do for them.

As a consequence, because his nerves were strained, he lit his cigarette very languidly, very carefully, and with an offensive superiority which was to Mr Birdsey the last straw.

The result was a little unexpected.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends. Consider the case of Henry

mental half-Nelson