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Carry On, Jeeves

Коллекция текстов · humor

  1. 1--Jeeves Takes Charge - (1)
    Now, touching this business of old Jeeves my man, you know how do we stand? Lots of people think I'm much too dependent on him. My Aunt Aga…
  2. 1--Jeeves Takes Charge - (2)
    'I shouldn't bother about tidying the room,' I said. 'I like tidying it. It's not a bit of trouble really.' 'But it's quite tidy now.' 'Not…
  3. 2--The Artistic Career of Corky - (1)
    You will notice, as you flit through these reminiscences of mine, that from time to time the scene of action is laid in and around the city…
  4. 2--The Artistic Career of Corky - (2)
    'So you know my nephew, Mr Wooster?' I heard him say. 'I wish you would try to knock a little sense into him and make him quit this playing…
  5. 3--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 bird who says that it's al…
  6. 3--Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest - (2)
    Directly I managed to tear myself away that night and get home, I made up my mind that this was jolly well the last time that I went about…
  7. 4--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 Jeeves flitting about the room and putting out the…
  8. 4--Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg - (2)
    There was Jeeves, standing behind me, full of zeal. In this matter of shimmering into rooms the man is rummy to a degree. You're sitting in…
  9. 5--The Aunt and the Sluggard - (1)
    Now that it's all over, I may as well admit that there was a time during the affair of Rockmetteller Todd when I thought that Jeeves was go…
  10. 5--The Aunt and the Sluggard - (2)
    Conversation languished once more after that. Then I tried again. I was becoming more convinced every moment that you can't make a real liv…
  11. 6--The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy - (1)
    'Jeeves,' I said, emerging from the old tub, 'rally round.' 'Yes, sir.' I beamed on the man with no little geniality. I was putting in a we…
  12. 6--The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy - (2)
    I'm bound to say I was not feeling entirely at my ease. There is something about the man that is calculated to strike terror into the stout…
  13. 7--Without the Option - (1)
    The evidence was all in. The machinery of the law had worked without a hitch. And the beak, having adjusted a pair of pince-nez which looke…
  14. 7--Without the Option - (2)
    'What?' 'Yes, sir.' I stared at the man in horror. A ghastly thought had struck me. I quivered like an aspen. At lunch that day a curious t…
  15. 8--Fixing it for Freddie - (1)
    'Jeeves,' I said, looking in on him one afternoon on my return from the club, 'I don't want to interrupt you.' 'No, sir?' 'But I would like…
  16. 8--Fixing it for Freddie - (2)
    'What are you going to do about it?' he asked. And it would be idle to deny that his manner was peevish. 'What can we do about it?' 'We? Wh…
  17. 9--Clustering Round Young Bingo - (1)
    I blotted the last page of my manuscript and sank back, feeling more or less of a spent force. After incredible sweat of the old brow the t…
  18. 9--Clustering Round Young Bingo - (2)
    'Yes, but just one moment. What is this scheme of yours?' Bingo massaged my shoulder soothingly. 'It's something right in your line, Bertie…
  19. 10--Bertie Changes his Mind - (1)
    It has happened so frequently in the past few years that young fellows starting in my profession have come to me for a word of advice, that…
  20. 10--Bertie Changes his Mind - (2)
    'I must confess, sir, that that is how they used to strike me. In my younger day, at the outset of my career, sir, I was at one time page-b…
  21. * * * * *
    'Jeeves,' said Mr Wooster, when I brought him his whisky and siphon one night about a week later, 'this is dashed jolly.' 'Sir?' 'Jolly. Co…
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