Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Mag…

P. G. Wodehouse
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Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French. ✨ The Luck of the Bodkins. Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1935.
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Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French. ✨ The Luck of the Bodkins. Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1935.

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