Summer Lightning

A phenomenal transaction between some of the major characters of Summer Lightning, third in P.G. Wodehouse's Blandings Castle series (a must read if there ever was one).

Sir Gregory pushed his eyes back into their sockets a split second before they would have bulged out of his head beyond recovery. He did his best to think calm, soothing thoughts. He had just remembered that he was a man who had to be careful about his blood-pressure.

'Pig?'
'Pig.'
'Did you say pig?'
'Pig.'
'What pig?'
'He says, "What pig?"'
'I heard him,' said Lord Emsworth.

Sir Gregory Parsloe again had trouble with his eyes.

'I don't know what you're talking about.'

The Hon. Galahad unfolded his arms again and smote the desk a blow that unshipped the cover of the ink-pot.

'Parsloe, you sheep-faced, shambling exile from Hell,' he cried. 'Disgorge that pig immediately!'

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Thank God for P.G. Wodehouse. Just try to read that last line without disassembling into giggling pieces.