The Inimitable Jeeves

not.'
'Of course, I didn't invent the country,' said George. 'That was Columbus. But I shall be delighted to consider any improvements you may suggest and lay them before the proper authorities.'

got what she was driving at now. Sir Roderick Glossop, Hono-ria's father, is always called a nerve specialist, because it sounds better, but everybody knows that he's really a sort of janitor to the loony-bin.

had just been saying to myself, 'Death, where is thy jolly old sting?' when she hove the bomb.

He was one of those supercilious striplings who give you the impression that you went to the wrong school and that your clothes don't fit.

over an egg beaten up in sherry.

character, sir. Since retiring from business he has become a great recluse, and now devotes himself almost entirely to the pleasures of the table.'

If it hadn't been for that cummerbund business earlier in the day I could have sobbed on Jeeves's neck and poured out all my troubles to him.

'I beg your pardon, sir,' he said in a sort of hushed voice. 'You are surely not proposing to appear in public in that thing?'

I had never been able to muster up the courage to put it on so far, for I knew that there would be trouble with Jeeves when I did

The family, especially my Aunt Agatha, who has savaged me incessantly from childhood up, have always rather made a point of the fact that mine is a wasted life, and that, since I won the prize at my first school for the best collection of wild flowers made during the summer holidays, I haven't done a dam' thing to land me on the nation's scroll of fame.