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When William Came

CHAPTER V: L'ART D'ETRE COUSINE
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I speak feelingly because I'm gravitating towards plumpness myself.

The Divine Architect turns us out fearfully and wonderfully built, and the result is charming to the eye, and then He adds another chin and two or three extra inches round the waist, and the effect is ruined.

Fortunately you can always find another Ronnie when this one grows fat and uninteresting; the supply of boys who look nice and eat asparagus is unlimited.

Hullo, Mr.Storre, we were all talking about you." "Nothing very damaging, I hope ?" said Ronnie, who had just entered the room.
"No, we were merely deciding that, whatever you may do with your life, your chin must remain single.

When one's chin begins to lead a double life one's own opportunities for depravity are insensibly narrowed.


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