My man Jeeves

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Leave It to Jeeves (1)
Jeeves—my man, you know—is really a most extraordinary chap. So capable. Honestly, I shouldn’t know what to do without him. On broader line…
Leave It to Jeeves (2)
I spun round. A chappie with a lot of stiff grey hair and a red sort of healthy face was standing there. Rather a formidable Johnnie, he lo…
Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest (1)
I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare—or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad—who says that it’s alw…
Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest (2)
In a way, I couldn’t help sympathizing with the fellow. He had about four weeks to have the good time that ought to have been spread over a…
Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg (1)
Sometimes of a morning, as I’ve sat in bed sucking down the early cup of tea and watched my man Jeeves flitting about the room and putting…
Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg (2)
There was Jeeves, standing behind me, full of zeal. In this matter of shimmering into rooms the chappie is rummy to a degree. You’re sittin…
Absent Treatment (1)
I want to tell you all about dear old Bobbie Cardew. It’s a most interesting story. I can’t put in any literary style and all that; but I d…
Absent Treatment (2)
I saw a great deal of him these days. I was his best friend, and he came to me for sympathy. I gave it him, too, with both hands, but I nev…
Helping Freddie (1)
I don’t want to bore you, don’t you know, and all that sort of rot, but I must tell you about dear old Freddie Meadowes. I’m not a flier at…
Helping Freddie (2)
“No; we shall have to cut out the soft music. But the rest’s all right. Look here.” He squatted in the sand. “This stone is the girl. This…
Rallying Round Old George (1)
I think one of the rummiest affairs I was ever mixed up with, in the course of a lifetime devoted to butting into other people’s business,…
Rallying Round Old George (2)
“Perhaps I did,” said George modestly, “I had no notion, till I became him, what a persuasive sort of chap my brother Alfred was. Anyway, s…
Doing Clarence a Bit of Good (1)
Have you ever thought about—and, when I say thought about, I mean really carefully considered the question of—the coolness, the cheek, or,…
Doing Clarence a Bit of Good (2)
I don’t know if you happen to be one of those Johnnies who are steeped in crime, and so forth, and think nothing of pinching diamond neckla…
The Aunt and the Sluggard (1)
Now that it’s all over, I may as well admit that there was a time during the rather rummy affair of Rockmetteller Todd when I thought that…
The Aunt and the Sluggard (2)
He vanished; and the aunt took the chair which I’d forgotten to offer her. She looked at me in rather a rummy way. It was a nasty look. It…
The Aunt and the Sluggard (3)
“Then, for Heaven’s sake, come over and sit at our table for the rest of the evening.” Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claim…