"Stop-gap" Quotes from Famous Books
... Mr Seymour, 'and unfortunately for the cause of morality, I am not a master. I was only a stop-gap, and my term of office ceased today at one o'clock. Thus the prisoner at the bar gets off on a technical point of law, and I trust it will be a lesson to him. I suppose you had the sense ... — Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse |