Piccadilly Jim

Chapter 29

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"Before his stony eye the immaculate Bartling wilted. It was a perfectly astounding likeness, but it was apparent to him when what he had ever heard and read about doubles came to him."

This is a somewhat clumsy construction, and quite un-Wodehousian. The original passage in the serialization read:

"Before his stony eye the immaculate Bartling wilted. All that he had ever heard and read about doubles came to him."