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Bertie Wooster was indignant-and with reason. The neighbors had dared to make a fuss about the assiduous practicing of his beloved banjolele. But a further blow was to come. "If," said Jeeves, "it is really your intention to continue playing that instrument, I have no option but to leave." Haughtily rejecting this ultimatum, Bertie sought refuge in a cottage owned by his buddy, Lord Chuffington. But the peace and quiet were rudely shattered by the arrival of Pauline Stoker-to whom he was once unnervingly engaged-and her formidable father, who saw in Bertie a pestilential suitor barmy to the core.… (más)
themulhern: Lord Peter is pretty obviously inspired by Bertie, as Bunter by Jeeves. This just seems impossible to deny.
Note that this Wodehouse was published after "Whose Body?". But the character of Bertie had been around for about a decade by the time "Whose Body?" was published.… (más)
Bertie Wooster se siente muy disgustado. Los vecinos se han quejado de su práctica persistente con el banjo y decide instalarse en el campo. Ante esa perspectiva desoladora, Jeeves declina acompañarle. Bertie rechaza con altivez el ultimátum y se refugia en la casa de campo de un amigo, pero la paz se verá trastornada hasta alcanzar una situación candente que sólo Jeeves podrá enfriar.
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I was a shade perturbed.
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"I fancy the individual you have in mind, sir, is the poet Keats, who compared his emotions on first reading Chapman's Homer to those of stout Cortex when with eagle eyes he stared at the Pacific.... And all his men looked at each other with a wild surmise, silent upon a peak in Darien."
Say what you like against civilisation, it comes in dashed handy in a crisis like this.
'You were talking with Chuffy, did you say?' 'Yes, sir.' 'And he heard all that, too?' 'Yes, sir.' 'About me kissing Miss Stoker?' 'Yes, sir.' 'Did it stir him up?' 'Yes, sir.' 'What did he say?' 'He mentioned something about scooping out your insides, sir.' I wiped the brow.
'In other words, he's actually being paid to chivvy me about with carving knives. If that's not Life,' I said thoughtfully, 'what is?'
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Bertie Wooster was indignant-and with reason. The neighbors had dared to make a fuss about the assiduous practicing of his beloved banjolele. But a further blow was to come. "If," said Jeeves, "it is really your intention to continue playing that instrument, I have no option but to leave." Haughtily rejecting this ultimatum, Bertie sought refuge in a cottage owned by his buddy, Lord Chuffington. But the peace and quiet were rudely shattered by the arrival of Pauline Stoker-to whom he was once unnervingly engaged-and her formidable father, who saw in Bertie a pestilential suitor barmy to the core.
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