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P. G. Wodehouse

Leave it to Psmith

Ronald Psmith (“the ‘p’ is silent, as in pshrimp”) is always willing to help a damsel in distress. So when he sees Eve Halliday without an umbrella during a downpour, he nobly offers her an umbrella, even though it’s one he picks out of the Drone Club’s umbrella rack. Psmith is so besotted with Eve that, when Lord Emsworth, her new boss, mistakes him for Ralston McTodd, a poet, Psmith pretends to be him so he can make his way to Blandings Castle and woo her. And so the farce begins: criminals disguised as poets with a plan to steal a priceless diamond necklace, a secretary who throws flower pots through windows, and a nighttime heist that ends in gunplay. How will everything be sorted out? Leave it to Psmith!
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  • Jon Robertsonhas quoted4 months ago
    ‘Something’s the matter,’ he asserted. ‘You can’t tell me that wasn’t a scream we heard when them lights was out. Or,’ he added weightily, for he was a man who looked at every side of a question, ‘a shriek. It was a shriek or scream. I said so at the time. “There,” I said, “listen!” I said. “That’s somebody screaming,” I said. “Or shrieking.” Something’s up.’
  • trihawkjonhas quoted5 years ago
    My friends have frequently told me that when once I start talking it requires something in the nature of a cataclysm to stop me.
  • trihawkjonhas quoted5 years ago
    The pyjamas had in some curious way set the copingstone on his dismay, and he was now in a condition approximating to panic.
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