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  1. P.G. Wodehouse _ Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

    But then everybody says that, though you have a brain like a peahen, you're the soul of kindness and generosity.'Well, I was handicapped here by the fact that, never having met a peahen, I was unable to estimate the quality of these fowls' intelligence, but she had spoken as if they were a bit short of the grey matter, and I was about the ask her who the hell she meant by 'everybody', when she resumed.
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  2. P.G. Wodehouse _ Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

    He coughed again, that deferential cough of his which sounds like a well-bred sheep clearing its throat on a distant mountain-top.
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  3. P.G. Wodehouse _ Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

    What if he does think you the world's premier louse? Don't we all?
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  4. P.G. Wodehouse _ Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

    I like B. Wooster the way he is. Lay off him, I say. Don't try to change him, or you may lose the flavour. Even when we were merely affianced, I recalled, this woman had dashed the mystery thriller from my hand, instructing me to read instead a perfectly frightful thing by a bird called Tolstoy. At the thought of what horrors might ensue after the clergyman had done his stuff and she had a legal right to bring my grey hairs in sorrow to the grave, the imagination boggled. It was a subdued and apprehensive Bertram Wooster who some moments later reached for the hat and light overcoat and went off to the Savoy to shove food into the Trotters. The
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  5. P.G. Wodehouse _ Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

    she would be in much the same position as one of those monarchs or dictators who wake up one morning to find that the populace has risen against them and is saying it with bombs.
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  6. P.G. Wodehouse _ Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

    It's called "Caliban At Sunset".' 'What at sunset?' 'Caliban.' He cleared his throat, and began: I stood with a man Watching the sun go down. The air was full of murmurous summer scents And a brave breeze sang like a bugle From a sky that smouldered in the west, A sky of crimson, amethyst and gold and sepia And blue as blue as were the eyes of Helen When she sat Gazing from some high tower in Ilium Upon the Grecian tents darkling below. And he, This man who stood beside me, Gaped like some dull, half-witted animal And said, 'I say, Doesn't that sunset remind you Of a slice Of underdone roast beef?' He
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  7. P.G. Wodehouse _ Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

    Ah, well,' I said resignedly, 'if that's that, that's that, what?' 'So it would appear, sir.' 'Nothing to do but keep the chin up and the upper lip as stiff as can be managed. I think I'll go to bed with an improving book. Have you read The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish by Rex West?
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  8. P.G. Wodehouse _ Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

    I was conscious of a passing pang for the oyster world, feeling--and I think correctly--that life for these unfortunate bivalves must be one damn thing after another."
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  9. P.G. Wodehouse _ Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

    Would you say my head was like a pumpkin, Wooster?' 'Not a bit, old man.' 'Not like a pumpkin?' 'No, not like a pumpkin. A touch of the dome of St Paul's, perhaps.
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  10. P.G. Wodehouse _ Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

    Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice."
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