A Short Pause For Refreshment

 
I've been dipping into "Galahad at Blandings" for the nth time and thought I'd quote a couple of nuggets from it.

"For an instant Wilfred Allsop's face lit up, as that of the poet Shelley whom he so closely resembled must have done when he suddenly realized that 'blithe spirit' rhymes with 'near it', not that it does, and another ode as good as off the assembly line."

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" 'Oh, by the way, Lord Emsworth,' she said, 'I nearly forgot to ask you. Who would that boy be? A small boy with a face like a prune run over by a motor bus.'
     Lord Emsworth was baffled. He had no solution to offer. It was left to Gally to supply the information. The description, he said, fitted Dame Daphne Winkworth's son Huxley like the paper on the wall and could scarcely have been improved upon by the most meticulous stylist."