P. G. Wodehouse

Name: Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 1
Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 1 (1922)

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“Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 1”, published in 1922, is a work by P. G. Wodehouse. It explores elements such as Windles, Hignett and Eustace.

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 1 (1922)

“ Hignett experienced no diminution of her annoyance. She had not seen her nephew Sam for ten years and would have been willing to extend the period. She remembered him as an untidy small boy who, once or twice, during his school holidays, had disturbed the cloistral peace of Windles with his beastly presence. However, blood being thicker than water, and all that sort of thing, she supposed she would have to give him five minutes. She went into the sitting-room and found there a young man who looked more or less like all other young men, though perhaps rather fitter than most. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 1 (1922)

“ She felt that she belonged to Windles, and Windles to her. Unfortunately, as a matter of cold, legal accuracy, it did not. She did but hold it in trust for her son, Eustace, until such time as he should marry and take possession of it himself. There were times when the thought of Eustace marrying and bringing a strange woman to Windles chilled Mrs. Hignett to her very marrow. Happily, her firm policy of keeping her son permanently under her eye at home and never permitting him to have speech with a female below the age of fifty had averted the peril up till now. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 1 (1922)

“ He is of a shy and retiring temperament and sees few women. He is almost a recluse.”
Sam was aware of this and had frequently regretted it. He had always been fond of his cousin and in that half-amused and rather patronising way in which men of thews and sinews are fond of the weaker brethren who run more to pallor and intellect; and he had always felt that if Eustace had not had to retire to Windles to spend his life with a woman whom from his earliest years he had always considered the Empress of the Wash-outs much might have been made of him. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 1 (1922)

“ Novelists, poets, scientists, philosophers, and plain, ordinary bores; some herd instinct seemed to affect them all simultaneously. It was like one of those great race movements of the Middle Ages. Men and women of widely differing views on religion, art, politics, and almost every other subject; on this one point the intellectuals of Great Britain were single-minded, that there was easy money to be picked up on the lecture platforms of America and that they might just as well grab it as the next person.
Mrs. Hignett had come over with the first batch of immigrants ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 1 (1922)

“ There was an invitation from the Butterfly Club asking her to be the guest of honour at their weekly dinner. There was a letter from her brother Mallaby—Sir Mallaby Marlowe, the eminent London lawyer—saying that his son Sam, of whom she had never approved, would be in New York shortly, passing through on his way back to England, and hoping that she would see something of him. Altogether a dull mail. Mrs. Hignett skimmed through it without interest, setting aside one or two of the letters for Eustace, who acted as her unpaid secretary, to answer later in the day. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 1 (1922)

“ Bream Mortimer looked embarrassed. He wriggled a little and moved his arms as if he were trying to flap them.
“You know,” he said, “I'm not a man who butts into other people's affairs.” ... He stopped. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 1 (1922)

“ I'm not one of these smooth, dashing guys, you see, with a great line of talk. I'm not ...”
“If you will kindly,” said Mrs. Hignett impatiently, “postpone this essay in psycho-analysis to some future occasion I shall be greatly obliged. I am waiting to hear the name of the girl my son wishes to marry.”
“Haven't I told you?” said Mr. Mortimer, surprised. “That's odd. I haven't! It's funny how one doesn't do the things one thinks one does. I'm the sort of man ...”
“What is her name?”
“Bennett.”
“Bennett? Wilhelmina Bennett? The daughter of Mr. Rufus Bennett? ”

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