Цитаты из книги автора P. G. Wodehouse The Inimitable Jeeves

After breakfast I lit a cigarette and went to the open window to inspect the day

Not for me?'
'Not for a dozen more like you.'
'I never thought,' said Bingo sorrowfully, 'to hear those words from Bertie Wooster!'
'Well, you've heard them now,' I said. 'Paste them in your hat.'
'Bertie, we were at school together.'
'It wasn't my fault.'
'We've been pals for fifteen years.'
'I know. It's going to take me the rest of my life to live it down.'

I couldn't follow the train of thought

The hand which grasped mine wrapped it round and enfolded it till I began to wonder if I'd ever get it out without excavating machinery.

'Bertie,' said Bingo reproachfully, 'I saved your life once.'

'When?'

'Didn't I? It must have been some other fellow, then. Well, anyway, we were boys together and all that

from what he told me, the dinners turned out by old Little's cook had to be tasted to be believed. There were tears in the old blighter's eyes as he got on the subject of the clear soup.

It was the first thing I would have thought of doing myself if I had been in any hole of any description

Tell him my future is in his hands, and that, if the wedding bells ring out, he can rely on me, even unto half my kingdom. Well, call it ten quid. Jeeves would exert himself with ten quid on the horizon, what?'

If I sprang it on him cold, he'd tie himself in knots on the hearthrug.'

Well?' said Bingo rapturously.

I took it that he wanted my opinion of the female poisoner who had just left us.

'Very nice,' I said.

He seemed dissatisfied.

'You don't think she's the most wonderful girl you ever saw?' he said wistfully.

'Oh, absolutely!' I said, to appease the blighter. 'Where did you meet her?'