P. G. Wodehouse

Name: A Damsel in Distress — Chapter 9
Author: P. G. Wodehouse

A Damsel in Distress — Chapter 9 (1919)

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“A Damsel in Distress — Chapter 9”, published in 1919, is a work by P. G. Wodehouse. It explores elements such as m'lady, Albert and Marshmoreton.

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P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ If only she could get in touch with him, she could—through him—get in touch with Geoffrey.
The whole world changed for her. The sun was setting and chill little winds had begun to stir the lily-pads, giving a depressing air to the scene, but to Maud it seemed as if all Nature smiled. With the egotism of love, she did not perceive that what she proposed to ask George to do was practically to fulfil the humble role of the hollow tree in which lovers dump letters, to be extracted later; she did not consider George's feelings at all. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ In Lord Marshmoreton's study a council of three was sitting in debate. The subject under discussion was that other note which George had written and so ill-advisedly entrusted to one whom he had taken for a guileless gardener. The council consisted of Lord Marshmoreton, looking rather shamefaced, his son Percy looking swollen and serious, and Lady Caroline Byng, looking like a tragedy queen.
"This," Lord Belpher was saying in a determined voice, "settles it. From now on Maud must not be allowed out of our sight." ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ Albert the page was a recent addition to Maud's inner circle. She had interested herself in him some two months back in much the same spirit as the prisoner in his dungeon cell tames and pets the conventional mouse. To educate Albert, to raise him above his groove in life and develop his soul, appealed to her romantic nature as a worthy task, and as a good way of filling in the time. It is an exceedingly moot point—and one which his associates of the servants' hall would have combated hotly—whether Albert possessed a soul. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ Enough was sufficient.
"Now, wouldn't you like to be able to write a wonderful thing like that, Albert?"
"Not me, m'lady."
"You wouldn't like to be a poet when you grow up?"
Albert shook his golden head.
"I want to be a butcher when I grow up, m'lady."
Maud uttered a little cry.
"A butcher?"
"Yus, m'lady. Butchers earn good money," he said, a light of enthusiasm in his blue eyes, for he was now on his favourite subject. "You've got to 'ave meat, yer see, m'lady. It ain't like poetry, m'lady, which no one wants."
"But, Albert," cried Maud faintly. "Killing poor animals. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ The world is full of Georges whose task it is to hang about in the background and make themselves unobtrusively useful.
She had reached this conclusion when Albert, who had taken a short cut the more rapidly to accomplish his errand, burst upon her dramatically from the heart of a rhododendron thicket.
"M'lady! Gentleman give me this to give yer!"
Maud read the note. It was brief, and to the point.
"I am staying near the castle at a cottage they call 'the one down by Platt's'. It is a rather new, red-brick place. You can easily find it. I shall be waiting there if you want me." ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ They may be needing you in the house."
"Very good, m'lady."
Albert rose, not unwilling to call it a day. He was conscious of the need for a quiet cigarette. He was fond of Maud, but a man can't spend all his time with the women.
"Pigs squeal like billy-o, m'lady!" he observed by way of adding a parting treasure to Maud's stock of general knowledge. "Oo! 'Ear 'em a mile orf, you can!"
Maud remained where she was, thinking, a wistful figure. Tennyson's "Mariana" always made her wistful even when rendered by Albert. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress — Chapter 9 (1919)

“ Red-'eaded gel that used to be cook 'ere. Mr. Keggs says to 'er, 'e says, 'You're marrying beneath you, Susan', 'e says. I 'eard 'im. I was listenin' at the door. And she says to 'im, she says, 'Oh, go and boil your fat 'ead', she says. ”

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