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Right Ho, Jeeves

Chapter 4 

Word Count: 2016    |    Released on: 19/11/2017

al eye, he is nevertheless a man who delights in giving credit where credit is due. And if you have followed these memoirs of min

Wearing for that paper she runs--_Milady's Boudoir_. She is a large, genial soul, with whom it is a pleasure to hob-nob. In her spiritual make-up there is none of that subtle gosh-awfulness which renders such an exhibit as, say, m

many a time and oft, and she knows my habits. She is well aware that until I have had my cup of tea in the morning, I do not receive. Thi

rt racing off again the day after her arrival. One feels that she ought to be sticking round, ministering to her husband, conferring with the cook, feeding the cat, combing and brushing the Pomeranian--in

't seem

, in a voice that hit me between the eyeb

half a mile away whom she had observed riding over hounds. A throwback, no doubt, to the time when

d this time it registered. All the effect it had, ho

would have gazed at some newt that was not up to sample, "if you have the faintest conception how perfectly loathsome you look

coldly. "Pongo Twistleton's birthday party.

et up an

d not have he

p and

es

a straw hat. A deep sip or two, and I felt--I won't say restored, because a birthday party like Pongo Twistleton's isn't a thing you get resto

the less could I grasp t

, Aunt Dahlia

as her response. "But you kn

brew, I have little doubt that I should have g

is. Your barging in and telling me to

up and dress because I want you to get up and dress. I've come to take you back with me. I like your cr

on't wan

very different things. There is man's work for you to do at B

dy to any buttons in twenty

med to

ve you a day or two to recover. All right, then, I

is? How do you mean, a job? W

. It's quite an easy, pleasant job. You will enjoy it.

ev

r school at Ma

e frigidly that I

kly?" she protested. "All right, then. Market Snodsbury Grammar School is, as you

ne of the g

there is at Market Snodsbury Grammar School, and I'm a member of it. And they left the arrangements for the summer priz

y head. Even after a Pongo Twistleton birthday party

inly. Market ... Snodsbury ... Grammar School ... Board of govern

to give away

They seemed the mere aimless vapouring of an aunt

M

ou

gled

on't m

you in

ed a th

pulling

n I got home I found a letter from him saying that he had strained a fetlock and must scratch his nomination. You can im

more eager to oblige deserving aunts than Bertram Wooster

strew prizes at this ball

d

ake a

act

ed deri

don't start gargling

s lau

glad to see you taking

"I won't do it. That's fina

ken my doors again. And you know what that

that it melted in the mouth of the ultimate consumer, Anatole had always been a magnet that drew me to Brinkley Court with my tongue hanging out. Many of my happiest mome

say, da

ould rattle you.

d with a touch of hauteur. "One is not a greedy young

f it do you get, if you refuse to do this simple, easy, pleasant job. No, not so mu

ke some wild thing

me? I mean, what am I

ten h

rific nib to give away prizes. I seem to remember, when I w

t Snodsbury we aren't nearly so cho

you get U

le T

not? He's

m and break the news to him. If, right after that, I ask him to put on lavender gloves and a topper and distribute the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School, ther

ong man. I'm hopeless at a game like that. Ask Jeeves about the time I got l

e way I look at it is that, as the thing is bound to be a frost, anyway, one may as well get a hearty laugh out of it. I shall enjoy seeing you d

gloomiest emotions. What with the natural reaction after Pongo's party an

the depths, when the door

to see you, sir

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