"'Income tax!' cried Lord Emsworth, staring like a war horse at the sound of the bugle. Pigs and income tax were the only two subjects that really stirred him. 'Let me tell you—'
'I haven't time to listen,' said Lady Constance, and swept from the room. These chats with the head of the family nearly always ended in her sweeping from the room. Unless, of course, they took place out of doors, when she merely swept away.
Left alone, Lord Emsworth sat for a while savouring that delicious sense of peace which comes to men of quiet tastes when their womenfolk have had their say and departed."
Pigs Have Wings
P.G. Wodehouse
I can always rely on Plum to bring a smile to my face. I just got a collection of the complete Mulliner stories at Powell's Books, (the best bookstore in the world), and I'm looking forward to have that as a backup to my main book for the evening reading.
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