'Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.
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'Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
It assumes the reader knows the characters' dynamic.
He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.
Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welterweight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A…
He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.
'Hey boss, do you think I look like a caveman?' - 'I don't know about that, but you bloody play like one.'
'Doin' the J-O-B at the P-P-V.'
Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. It is especially v…