Name: The Gem Collector — Chapter 4
Author: P. G. Wodehouse

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Gem Collector — Chapter 4 (1909)

“ Spennie plunged into an explanation, feeling all the time that he was making things worse for himself. Nobody is at his best in the matter of explanations if a lady whom he knows to be possessed of a firm belief in the incurable weakness of his intellect is looking fixedly at him during the recital. A prolonged conversation with Lady Blunt always made him feel exactly as if he were being tied into knots.
“All this,” said Sir Thomas, as his nephew paused for breath, “is very, very characteristic of our dear Spennie.” ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Gem Collector — Chapter 4 (1909)

“ From farther down the train a lady and gentleman emerged.
“That's the man. Is that your uncle?” said Jimmy.
“Guilty,” said Spennie gloomily. “I suppose we'd better go and tackle them, Come on.”
They walked up the platform to where Sir Thomas stood smoking a meditative cigar and watching in a dispassionate way the efforts of his wife to bully the solitary porter attached to the station into a frenzy. Sir Thomas was a very tall, very thin man, with cold eyes, and tight, thin lips. His clothes fitted him in the way clothes do fit one man in a thousand. They were the best part of him. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Gem Collector — Chapter 4 (1909)

“ It was trying a reformed man a little high, he could not help thinking with some indignation, to dangle forty thousand pounds' worth of pearls before his eyes over the freshly turned sods of the grave of his past. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Gem Collector — Chapter 4 (1909)

“ To Spike a diamond brooch of cunning workmanship was merely the equivalent of so many “plunks.” That a man, otherwise more than sane, should value a jewel for its own sake was to him an inexplicable thing.
Jimmy was still deep in thought when the train, which had been taking itself less seriously for the last half hour, stopping at stations of quite minor importance and generally showing a tendency to dawdle, halted again. A board with the legend “Corven” in large letters showed that they had reached their destination.
“Here we are,” said Spennie. “Hop out. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Gem Collector — Chapter 4 (1909)

“ At the conclusion of that period, he spoke.
“Dash it!” he said. “I've suddenly remembered I never telegraphed home to let 'em know what train we were coming by. Now what'll happen is that there won't be anything at Corven to meet us and take us up to the abbey. And you can't get a cab. They don't grow such things.”
“How far is it to walk?”
“Five solid miles. And uphill most of the way. And I've got a bad foot!”
“As a matter of fact,” said Jimmy, “it's just possible that we shall be met, after all. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, The Gem Collector — Chapter 4 (1909)

“ Chase yourself. It's not up to you to do stunts on this beat. Fade away.”
“Sure,” said the abashed Spike, restored to a sense of his position. “Dat's right. I've got wheels in me coco, that's what I've got, comin' buttin' in here. Sorry, Mr. Chames. Sorry, gents. Me for the tall grass.”
He trotted away.
“Your man seems to have a pretty taste in literature,” said Sir Thomas to Jimmy. “Well, my dear, finished your chat with the porter?”
Lady Blunt had come up, flushed and triumphant, having left the solitary porter a demoralized wreck. ”

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