Carry On, Jeeves

It seemed to me that if he wanted to do a real act of kindness he would commit suicide.

The postulate or common understanding involved in speech is certainly co-extensive, in the obligation it carries, with the social organism of which language is the instrument, and the ends of which it is an effort to subserve.’
All perfectly true, no doubt; but not the sort of thing to spring on a lad with a morning head

directly after the rather rummy business of Florence Craye,

From the collar upward he stands alone.

he received a long-overdue knighthood

never looks back…

You have to work the good old iron-hand-in-the-velvet-glove wheeze.

floated noiselessly through the doorway like a healing zephyr

steeped to the gills in serious purpose.

rom the collar upward he stands alone