You can't be too careful how you stir up a policeman.
P.G. WodehouseThe silly ass had left the kitchen door open, and I hadn't gone two steps when his voice caught me squarely in the eardrum.
'You will find Mr Wooster', he was saying to the substitue chappie, 'an extremely pleasant and amiable young gentleman, but not intelligent. By no means intelligent. Mentally he is negligible - quite negligible'.
Well, I mean to say. What!
I suppose, strictly speaking, I ought to have charged in and ticked the blighter off properly in no uncertain voice. But I doubht whether it is humanly possible to tick Jeeves off.
The general effect was rather as if I had swallowed six-pennorth of dynamite and somebody touched it off inside me.
P.G. WodehouseI could not but feel that it was ironical that the old relative should have spoken disparagingly of fawns as a class, sneering at their timidity in that rather lofty and superior manner, for he himself could have walked straight into a gathering of these animals and no questions asked.
P.G. WodehouseSo!' he said, at length, and it came as a complete surprise to me that fellows ever really do say 'So!'. I had always thought it was just a thing you read in books.
P.G. WodehouseI gave it up. The man annoyed me. I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie, but I was dashed if I could see why he couldn't do it with a bright and cheerful smile.
P.G. WodehouseThe Soul's Awakening expression on his face became intensified. Before my revolted eyes Augustus Fink-Nottle definitely smirked.
P.G. WodehouseI drew a deepish breath.
P.G. WodehouseBingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind.
P.G. Wodehouse...though the conversation always touched an exceptionally high level of brilliance, there was apt to be a good deal of sugar thrown about.
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