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"Listen, Corky, old top! If you think I am going to face that uncle of yours without Jeeves's support, you're mistaken. I'd sooner go into a den of wild beasts and bite a lion on the back of the neck."
"He has a decidedly inebriated air, sir."
it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.
She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage society or a league for the suppression of eggs.
You can get anything you like for eggs in America. Chappies keep them on ice for years and years, and don't sell them till they fetch about a dollar a whirl.
in happier days I've heard him give an imitation of cats fighting in a backyard that would have surprised you.