From Decline and Fall, by Evelyn Waugh
A SPLENDID STORY
"'Brolly told a splendid story about how you used to go out swimming in the evenings and swim for hours and hours in the dark composing elegiac verses, and then he spoiled it by saying you had webbed feet and a prehensile tail, which made the chap think he was having his leg pulled. I say, am I terribly in the way?'"
From Chapter Six, A Hitch in the Wedding Preparations
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