It seems to be one of Nature's laws that the most attractive girls should have the least attractive brothers. Fillmore Nicholas had not worn well. At the age of seven he had been an extraordinarily beautiful child, but after that he had gone all to pieces; and now, at the age of twenty-five, it would be idle to deny that he was something of a mess.
In "The Adventures of Sally" by P.G. Wodehouse, the character Fillmore Nicholas is depicted as a strikingly beautiful child in his youth, but as he matures, he unfortunately loses his charm. At twenty-five, he is described as being quite unattractive, suggesting that beauty can be fleeting and is not guaranteed to last into adulthood. This transformation highlights a broader theme regarding physical attractiveness and its impact on personal identity.
The quote reflects a humorous observation about nature's seeming rule that beautiful girls often have less appealing brothers, implicitly pointing to the randomness of physical traits among siblings. Fillmore's decline from an extraordinarily beautiful child to someone less desirable encapsulates this idea, emphasizing that external beauty does not always endure, and may not be equally distributed among family members.
