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Have you been looking for that book?’
“When are you going to pinch Eustace Oates’s helmet, darling?”
An assistant to a priest.
they look at one another with the raised eyebrow of censure, and ask themselves if he is quite the right man for the job.
flicking a speck of dust from the irreproachable Mechlin lace at his wrists.
‘The psychology of the individual?’
Not one. She had been as tough as a restaurant steak,
It has been well said of Bertram Wooster
to rise on stepping-stones of his dead self in
the time I sneaked down by night to the Rev. Aubrey Upjohn’s lair in quest of biscuits and
‘Somebody stole Constable Oates’s helmet tonight,’ he said, changing the subject.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, what?’
‘Latin joke,’ I exclaimed. ‘Quis—who—custodiet—shall guard—ipsos custodes—the guardians themselves?
flicking specks of dust from the irreproachable Mechlin lace at my wrists,
‘I have the honour to ask you for your niece’s hand.’
‘I have the honour to ask you for your niece’s hand.’
‘It’s quite simple. I want to marry ...
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It was only about a minute before Stiffy appeared.
‘You love the curate?’
It was plain from old Bassett’s manner that he was not prepared to classify this under the heading of tidings of great joy. His
stertorously.
‘Where’s that notebook?’
‘Never mind about the notebook.
You remember when Harold brought me back my gloves, there was only one of them. The other he apparently dropped while scooping in the helmet.’
A sort of dull, bruised feeling weighed me down as I mused on this latest manifestation of Harold Pinker’s goofiness,
and I’ve got to look slippy and find a better safe-deposit vault for that helmet than my chest of drawers.
Ogpu
Where is that book?’ ‘Well, if you really must know, I hid it in the cow-creamer.’
‘I hid it in the cow-creamer.’
‘And you say Stephanie has hidden this notebook in Daddy’s cow-creamer?’
the psychology of the individual.
When Madeline Bassett returned a few minutes later, there was no notebook in her hand. She reported total inability to discover so much as a trace of a notebook in the spot indicated.
mazzard.
what Stiffy’s motive could be for saying the notebook was in the cow-creamer, when it wasn’t,
Before my bulging eyes he produced from his pocket a small, brown, leather-covered notebook.
In precisely the same manner did the miraculous appearance of this notebook affect me.
‘Give me that book, Spode!’
When he saw me slip the volume into my pocket,
Pressing the notebook into his hand, I sent him off to show it to Madeline Bassett,
I’ve got that notebook.’
‘Yes, absolutely got it. I found Spode with it and took it away from him, and Gussie is even now showing it to Miss Bassett and clearing his name of the stigma that rested upon it.
The wedding’s off.’
One man’s peach is another man’s poison, and
and the bath was the only place to lodge the newts.
so I called him to order with a sharp rap of a china vase on the mantelpiece.
How does Pop Bassett come into the picture?’ ‘He went to take a bath. It never occurred to me that anyone would be taking a bath as late as this.
he had pulled out the plug and all my newts had gone down the waste pipe.’
The real trouble is that I mocked at that cow-creamer of his.’
What you have got to do, Gussie, is pinch that cow-creamer.’
in order to recover that foul cow he would meet any terms you care to name.
