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Everyone, even Augustus the cat, has cause to be obliged to Jeeves when he manages to retrieve the infamous Book, the book kept under lock and key at the Junior Ganymede Club and which lays bare the private lives of three-quarters of the upper classes, and which could prove to be political dynamite at the Market Snodsbury by-election! It once again falls to Bertie Wooster's manservant to save the day.… (meer)
While staying with his Aunt Dahlia to help out in the election at Market Snodsbury, Bertie Wooster comes up against the familiar horrors of Florence Craye, his former fiancée, and Roderick Spode, head of the Black Shorts, in a plot tangle from which, as usual, only the ingenuity of Jeeves can save him.
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As I slid into my chair at the breakfast table and started to deal with the toothsome eggs and bacon which Jeeves had given of his plenty, I was conscious of a strange exhilaration, if I've got the word right.
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Again I was compelled to pause and remind myself that an English gentleman does not slosh a sitting redhead, no matter what the provocation. (Bertie Wooster, Chap. 8)
“Don't tell me she wants me to present the prizes at Market Snodbury Grammar School like Gussie?”
He was alluding to a mutual friend of ours name of Gussie Fink-Nottle, who, hounded by the aged relative into undertaking this task in the previous summer, had got pickled to the gills and made an outstanding exhibition of himself, setting up a mark at which all future orators would shoot in vain. (Chap. 9)
She greeted me with one of those piercing view-halloos which she had picked up on the hunting field in those days when she had been an energetic chivvier of the British fox. It sounded like a gas explosion and went through me from stem to stern. I've never hunted, myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two plowed fields and a stretch of woodland. (Chap. 12)
Aunt Dahlia's eye, while not in the same class as that of my Aunt Agatha, who is know to devour her young and conduct human sacrifices at the full moon, has lots of authority. (Chap. 12)
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"Yes, I didn't think it was bad myself," I said, and after a bit more kidding back and forth he shimmered out, leaving me to grapple with the problem—call it Problem (e)—of how to get up and have my bath without waking Gus, who had now transferred himself to my Adam's apple.
Everyone, even Augustus the cat, has cause to be obliged to Jeeves when he manages to retrieve the infamous Book, the book kept under lock and key at the Junior Ganymede Club and which lays bare the private lives of three-quarters of the upper classes, and which could prove to be political dynamite at the Market Snodsbury by-election! It once again falls to Bertie Wooster's manservant to save the day.
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