Right Ho, Jeeves

ng, and the whole aspect that of a man who has passed through the furnace and been caught in the machinery. I hitched myself up a bit high

, Gus

o, Be

at

at

felt that the moment had come

ve been thro

es

s to J

t Jeeves'

y Jeeves

I forgot my money

Gussie," I said, deeming it best to put him in touch with the position of

y. He had been looking like a dead fish. He now looked like a deader fish, one of last

ha

es

that Jeeves is

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dash i

ind, bu

keenest of thinkers strikes a bad patch occasionally. That is what has happened to Jeeves. I have seen it coming on for some time. He has

urse I

hat p

these people in the country, and I wan

ay, Jeeves is

rtie, da

asperity, "is no longer on the

on earth c

nded. We can make allowances for men who have b

seems quite simple to me. You say this girl has gone to visit friends in the country. It woul

myself on a lot of

know thes

on't. I don't

is did seem to compli

s Travers, and it's a place called Br

rsed m

ooster interested himself in your affairs. As I foresaw from the start, I can fi

must always be rather a thrilling experien

don't mean you kno

e my Aun

go

one of the foulest false beards of my experience, and sends you off to fancy-dress balls. Result, agony of spirit and no progress. I then take over a

, I don't know h

ear c

, I

w w

do when I

fixed up the preliminary formalities at Brinkley. The place is simply ill with atmosphere. You will stroll with the girl in the shady walks. Y

believe yo

iest idea of indulging in the tender pash. I hadn't the slightest intention of proposing to anybody. Yet no sooner had I entered those romanti

e able to do--work up to it. And in London--curse the plac

you want to ask her to be your wife, you've got to charge into i

erent man altogether in the country. What a bit of l

turning out to be my aunt. Sh

t it should be your aunt that

ngela are close friends. At Cann

he poor lizard devoutly, "I wish I could have seen her at Cannes.

touched the bell and, when Jeeves appeared, requested him to bring me telegraph form and pencil. I then wrote a well-worded communication to Aunt

ice you pass," I said. "She will fi

king like a close-up of Joan Crawford, and I turne

erve, Jeeves. No

, s

thing strained or bizarr

s,

en two people of opposite sexes are bunged together in close association in

ty' the word y

sie is a mere jelly when in the presence. But ask yourself how he will feel in a week or so, after he and she have been helping themselves to

ptly. I had had

y, Je

ir

think of everything. You heard me menti

s,

and pencil. I must warn Gussie without delay. What he's got to do is to create in this girl's mi

, s

well,

and _p._, I draft

k-No

ley C

t Sno

este

sages. Avoid th

off, Jeeves

good

ck on the

ou notice the grip I am getting on this case. No doubt y

oubt,

o you know what brought Aunt Dahlia up here this morning? She came to tell me I'd got to d

ou will scarcely find

o do it. I'm going to sh

ir

I can't get down, and suggesting that she unleashes h

k-Nottle should

Scene, the drawing-room at Brinkley; Gussie wedged into a corner, with Aunt Dahlia stan

gree. Mrs. Travers is

ie will have to toe the line, and I shall be saved from a job at which I confess the soul shuddered. Getting up on a platform and delivering a short,

vividl

ss I made

seen you to bett

hose dynamite specials of yours, Jeeves. This

it wasn't till well after lunch that her telegram arrived. It read like a telegram that ha

fol

t for yourself. Consider your conduct frozen limit. What do you mean by planting your loathsome friends on me l

h initial reaction. I r

Nottle. Reg

e heart cry, Gussie must have arrived, for it wasn't

me here. Runs "Lay off the sausages. Avoid

epl

eys. Cheer

us, teacup-passing, thin-bread-and-butter-offering yes-men whom women of my Aunt Dahlia's type nearly always like at first sight. That I had not ov

fol

the whole clean and civil, and certainly most informative about newts. Am considering arranging series of lectures for him in neighbourhood. All the same I like yo

s I ri

d impossible come Brinkley Court.

y stuck a si

it a jolly sight more deeply if you don't come down. If you imagine for one moment that you are going to get out of distributing those p

lose it all. It was not a moment for petty ec

ho will do you credit. Confidently anticipate Augustus Fink-Nottle as Master of Revels on thirty-first inst. wo

hless suspense, and then t

orm and contemptible, spineless cowardly custard, but have booked Spink-Bottle. St

funnel. I sang as I dressed for dinner that night. At the Drones I was so gay and cheery that there were several complaints. And when I got home and turned into the old bed, I fell

on the morrow and sitting up to dig into the morn

the ordeal confronting him, have legged it during the night down a water-pipe? With these speculation

eeves, pausin

got the gist all right. No, I had

said, "do yo

, s

my cousi

s,

young Tupp

s,

ken off thei

y to hear

unt Dahlia, specifically stating th

d not s

ouldn't. Don't b

, s

I was dee

y all of a twitter, and my place is by her side. You had better pack this morning, and cat

good

ded so

s come as a great s

oubt,

ut, tut! Why, they seemed like the paper on

s,

there

btedly

hen. Switch

good