Thank You, Jeeves
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marycatelliThank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The first Jeeves novel. In which Bertie goes to take a cottage in the country, where he may play his treasured banjolele without noise complaints, and Jeeves gives notice.
Bertie takes a cottage on the estate of his land-poor noble friend, Chuffy, and Jeeves takes service with Chuffy. And what should happen when Bertie arrives but the arrival of Mr. Stoker, the American millionaire; his daughter Pauline, whom Bertie was engaged to in America; and Sir Roderick Glossop, the nerve doctor.
It turns out that Pauline and Chuffy are in love, and Chuffy wants to sell the hall so he won't be poor when she's a millionaire's heiress, and Sir Roderick wants to set up a hall for his patients in the country, which Mr. Stoker providing the cash.
Complications ensue. Sir Roderick is also in love with Chuffy's aunt, who has never quite gotten over how the title and all went to her nephew, with the late lord's stepson, her son, excluded. Bertie's new valet is rather red in his opinion. A housemaid and a local copper have an understanding. A boy is trying tricks from gangster movies. And more.
The first Jeeves novel. In which Bertie goes to take a cottage in the country, where he may play his treasured banjolele without noise complaints, and Jeeves gives notice.
Bertie takes a cottage on the estate of his land-poor noble friend, Chuffy, and Jeeves takes service with Chuffy. And what should happen when Bertie arrives but the arrival of Mr. Stoker, the American millionaire; his daughter Pauline, whom Bertie was engaged to in America; and Sir Roderick Glossop, the nerve doctor.
It turns out that Pauline and Chuffy are in love, and Chuffy wants to sell the hall so he won't be poor when she's a millionaire's heiress, and Sir Roderick wants to set up a hall for his patients in the country, which Mr. Stoker providing the cash.
Complications ensue. Sir Roderick is also in love with Chuffy's aunt, who has never quite gotten over how the title and all went to her nephew, with the late lord's stepson, her son, excluded. Bertie's new valet is rather red in his opinion. A housemaid and a local copper have an understanding. A boy is trying tricks from gangster movies. And more.