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‘Good evening, Jeeves.’ ‘Good morning, sir.’
I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you’re going to die in about five minutes.
loosed it down the hatch,
in mid-season form,
the market for same is sluggish
I refuse to be decanted
if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled,
an imbroglio that would test the Wooster soul as
the browsing at her trough is always of a nature to lure the gourmet.
and headed for the library, where I had been informed that Aunt Dahlia was at the moment roosting.
get into his ribs
one does not oscillate the bean.
Modern Dutch.’ ‘Why?’ ‘I don’t know. Apparently it’s something a cow-creamer ought not to be.’
sedulous
slightest relaxation of vigilance,
Scratch Bertram Wooster, I often say, and you find a Boy Scout.
It was as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment.
like a flower groping toward the sun.
return to the flat and get outside another of Jeeves’s pick-me-ups.
going back to the fountain head,
rather mildewed bird of gloomy aspect,
evidence of a goofiness which he would do well to watch and check before it spreads.
you can’t combine tripping over cats with languid sauntering.
you could almost see him totting up the score on his fingers.
he had always stood by himself in the chump class.
‘May his cistern start leaking,
The whole situation seemed to me essentially one of those where you just clench the hands and roll the eyes mutely up to heaven and then start a new life and try to forget.
Unfortunately, however, if there was one thing circumstances weren’t, it was different from what they were,
like a fish that has been hauled out of a pond on a bent pin and isn’t at all sure it is equal to the pressure of events.
Madeline Bassett laughed the tinkling, silvery laugh which was one of the things that had got her so disliked by the better element.
trouser the cow.
A pity there has been such a wide popular demand for it.’
will accept the disappointment philosophically.’
‘You can’t be expected to dish out happy endings all round—
Heaven speed your efforts.’
the buoyancy of his demeanour
I, toughened and fortified by the routine of one damn thing after another
