P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 3 (1919)

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Portrait of P. G. Wodehouse P. G. Wodehouse,  The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 3 (1919)

“ Remove the white tiles, the thermometer the brass knobs, and the shower-bath, and this was precisely the sort of scene his imagination conjured up when the business of life slackened sufficiently to allow him to dream dreams.
There he was, sitting in one chair; there was Mamie, sitting in another; and there in the corner was the little white cot—well, perhaps that was being a shade too prophetic; on the other hand, it always came into these dreams of his. ”
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Portrait of P. G. Wodehouse P. G. Wodehouse,  The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 3 (1919)

“ Porter's hand was extended toward the knob that the paralysis which terror had put upon Mamie relaxed its grip. She had stood by without a movement while the cold water splashed down upon the hidden Steve. Her heart had ached for him, but she had not stirred. But now, with the prospect of allowing him to be boiled alive before her, she acted.
It is generally only on the stage that a little child comes to the rescue of adults at critical moments ”
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Portrait of P. G. Wodehouse P. G. Wodehouse,  The Coming of Bill : Book II — Chapter 3 (1919)

“ Observe the tricks that conscience plays us. If Mamie had told Steve what had caused William to wake he would certainly have been so charmed by her presence of mind, exerted on his behalf to save him from the warm fate which Mrs. Porter's unconscious hand had been about to bring down upon him, that he would have forgotten his diffidence then and there and, as the poet has it, have eased his bosom of much perilous stuff. ”
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