Piccadilly Jim by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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a form and had to be filled up. He examined it, and found it to
be a searching document. Some of its questions could be answered off-hand, others required thought. "Height?" Simple. Five foot eleven. "Hair?" Simple. Brown. "Eyes?" Simple again. Blue. Next, queries of a more offensive kind. "Are you a polygamist?" He could answer that. Decidedly no. One wife would be ample--provided she had red-gold hair, brown-gold eyes, the right kind of mouth, and a dimple. Whatever doubts there might be in his mind on other points, on that one he had none whatever. "Have you ever been in prison?" Not yet. And then a very difficult one. "Are you a lunatic?" Jimmy hesitated. The ink dried on his pen. He was wondering. * * * |
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