P. G. Wodehouse

Name: The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 15
Author: P. G. Wodehouse

The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 15 (1919)

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“The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 15”, published in 1919, is a work by P. G. Wodehouse. It explores elements such as Kirk, Lora Delane Porter and Mamie.

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ Great is the magic of love that can restore a man in an instant of time from being an obsequious wreck to a thing of fire and resolution. A moment before Steve's only immediate object in life had been to stay quiet and keep out of the way as much as possible. He had never been a man of ready speech in the presence of an angry woman; words intimidated him as blows never did, especially the whirl of words which were at Lora Delane Porter's command in moments of emotion. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ Kirk did not answer.
"Good night, Ruth."
Ruth made no sign that she had heard.
Mrs. Porter, grand in defeat, moved slowly to the door.
But even in the greatest women there is that germ of feminine curiosity which cannot be wholly eliminated, that little grain of dust that asserts itself and clogs the machinery. It had been Mrs. Porter's intention to leave the room without a glance, her back defiantly toward the foe. But, as she reached the door, there came from behind her a sound of movement, a stifled cry, a little sound whose meaning she knew too well. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ Most certainly she might. In a woman who had once been a long-haired dogist there are always possibilities of a relapse into long-haired dogism, just as in a converted cannibal there are always possibilities of a return to the gods of wood and stone and the disposition to look on his fellow-man purely in the light of breakfast-food.
For these reasons Mrs. Porter was determined to push home her present advantage, to wipe Kirk off the map as an influence in Ruth's life. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ I hope he will see that he gets his money. In his place I should be feeling uneasy."
"Ma'am!" protested Steve.
Mrs. Porter silenced him with a gesture.
"Be quiet!" she said.
Steve was quiet.
Mrs. Porter returned to Kirk.
Of all her burning words, Kirk had not heard one. His eyes had never left Ruth's. Like her, he was trying to read a message from a face that seemed only cold. In this crisis of their two lives he had no thought for anybody but her. He had a sense of great issues, of being on the verge of the tremendous; but his brain felt numbed and heavy. He could not think. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ Even a Napoleon, however, may err from lack of sufficient information; and there was a flaw in her position of which she was unaware. From the beginning of the drive to the end of it Ruth had hardly spoken a word, and Mrs. Porter, in consequence, was still in ignorance of what had been happening that day in Wall Street and the effect of these happenings on her niece's outlook on life. Could she have known it, the silent girl beside her had already suffered the relapse which she had feared as a remote possibility. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ If you had the remnants of decent feeling in you, you would be physically incapable of the feat. If you would care to know how your conduct strikes an unprejudiced spectator, I may tell you that I consider you a scoundrel of the worst type and unfit to associate with any but the low company in which I find you. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 15 (1919)

“ He disappeared into the outer darkness after Mamie.
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In the room they had left, Kirk and Ruth faced each other in silence. Lora Delane Porter eyed them grimly. It was the hour of her defeat, and she knew it. Forces too strong for her were at work. Her grand attack, the bringing of these two together that Ruth might confront Kirk in his guilt, had recoiled upon her. The Old Guard had made their charge up the hill, and it had failed. Victory had become a rout. With one speech Steve had destroyed her whole plan of campaign. ”

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