...I mean to say, when a girl, offered a good man’s heart, laughs like a bursting paper bag and tells him not… — P.G. Wodehouse
...I mean to say, when a girl, offered a good man’s heart, laughs like a bursting paper bag and tells him not to be a silly ass, the good man is entitled, I think, to assume that the whole thing is off.
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