As is so often the case with butlers, there was a good deal of Beach. Julius Caesar, who liked to have men about him who were fat, would have taken to him at once. He was a man who had made two chins grow where only one had been before, and his waistcoat swelled like the sail of a racing yacht.

I started back to the house, and in the drive I met Jeeves. He was at the wheel of Stiffy's car. Beside him, looking like a Scotch elder rebuking sin, was the …

To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi...

'And shove him into a dungeon with dripping walls and see to it that he is well gnawed by rats.'

I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.

'He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess.'

An immensely tall, angular figure ... His gown hung round him in long folds like the wings of a bat, and his wig was perched slightly askew over a lantern jawe…