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It began to look as if our married life together would be rather like twenty years among the Trappist monks. "Seen Jeeves anywhere?" I asked, eventually coming through. "Yes, in the dining-room." "The dining-room?" "Waiting on everybody. They are having eggs and bacon and champagne.... What did you say?" I had said nothing merely snorted.
In the present instance, there is absolutely nothing to say 'Sir? about. The plan I have put forward is entirely reasonable and icily logical, and should excite no sirring whatsoever. Or don't you think so?" "Well, sir " "Jeeves!" "I beg your pardon, sir. The expression escaped me inadvertently.
Now that it's all over, I may as well admit that there was a time during the rather funny affair of Rockmetteller Todd when I thought that Jeeves was going to let me down. The man had the appearance of being baffled. Jeeves is my man, you know.
By Jove, Bertie," said the poor lizard devoutly, "I wish I could have seen her at Cannes. How wonderful she must have looked in beach pyjamas! Oh, Bertie " "Quite," I said, a little distantly. Even when restored by one of Jeeves's depth bombs, one doesn't want this sort of thing after a hard night. I touched the bell and, when Jeeves appeared, requested him to bring me telegraph form and pencil.
For Jeeves had spread abroad Strahan's charge of purloining the memoir which had been entrusted to me; and that accusation had done me great injury in public opinion, because it seemed to give probability to the only motive which ingenuity could ascribe to the foul deed imputed to me. That motive had been first suggested by Mr. Vigors.
"This little trouble of yours. Jeeves has told me everything." He didn't seem any too braced. It's always difficult to be sure, of course, when a chap has dug himself in behind a Mephistopheles beard, but I fancy he flushed a trifle. "I wish Jeeves wouldn't go gassing all over the place. It was supposed to be confidential." I could not permit this tone.
I've simply spent my life scattering largesse to blighters I didn't care a hang for; yet here was I now, dripping doubloons and pieces of eight and longing to hand them over, and Bicky, poor fish, absolutely on his uppers, not taking any at any price. "Well, there's only one hope, then." "What's that?" "Jeeves." "Sir?" There was Jeeves, standing behind me, full of zeal.
"In fact, this looks like being another of your successes. I've always said, and I always shall say, that for sheer brain, Jeeves, you stand alone. All the other great thinkers of the age are simply in the crowd, watching you go by." "Thank you very much, sir. I endeavour to give satisfaction."
"One finds it difficult to hazard a conjecture, sir." "You mean imagination boggles?" "Yes, sir." I inspected my imagination. He was right. It boggled. "And yet, Jeeves," I said, twiddling a thoughtful steering wheel, "there is always the bright side."
Sir Philip's body had been found not many yards distant from the hotel at which he had put up, and to which, therefore, he was evidently returning when he left Mr. Jeeves, an old-fashioned hotel, which had been the principal one at L when Sir Philip left England, though now outrivalled by the new and more central establishment in which Margrave was domiciled.
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