“Mr Warboys, without putting himself to the trouble of deciding which of the more ferocious animals his friend resembled, stated the matter in simple, and courageously frank terms. “You know, old fellow,” he once told Martin,“if you had a tail, damme if you wouldn’t lash it!”

“Mr Warboys, without putting himself to the trouble of deciding which of the more ferocious animals his friend resembled, stated the matter in simple, and courageously frank terms. “You know, old fellow,” he once told Martin,“if you had a tail, damme if you wouldn’t lash it!”

— Georgette Heyer