Book: Right Ho, Jeeves
Quotes of Book: Right Ho, Jeeves
Yes, Jeeves?"The man had materialized on the carpet. Absolutely noiseless, as usual."A note for you, sir.""A note for me, Jeeves?""A note for you, sir.""From whom, Jeeves?""From Miss Bassett, sir.""From whom, Jeeves?""From Miss Bassett, sir.""From Miss Bassett, Jeeves?""From Miss Bassett, sir."At this point, Aunt Dahlia begged us for heaven's sake to cut out the cross-talk vaudeville stuff. Always willing to oblige, I dismissed Jeeves with a nod, and he flickered for a moment and was gone. book-quotesubtlesurreptitiousI remember when I was a kid at school having to learn a poem of sorts about a fellow named Pig-something-a sculptor he would have been, no doubt-who made a statue of a girl, and what should happen one morning but that the bally thing suddenly came to life. A pretty nasty shock for the chap, of course, but the point I'm working round to is that there were a couple of lines that went, if I remember correctly: She starts. She moves. She seems to feel The stir of life along her keel. And what I'm driving at is that you couldn't get a better description of what happened to Gussie as I spoke these heartening words. His brow cleared, his eyes brightened, he lost that fishy look, and he gazed at the slug, which was still on the long, long trail with something approaching bonhomie. A marked improvement. book-quote