A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. (P. G. Wodehouse)

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

P. G. Wodehouse

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