JEEVES AND THE HARD-BOILED EGG by P.G. WODEHOUSE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Bernie Wooster's old pal stops by to share his troubles- those being the fact that his Uncle's monthly checks have dried up- and being to proud to borrow from Bernie, he is seeking an answer.
Bernie asks Jeeves....
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| 1:11.6 | The One Thousand One classic short stories and tales. |
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| 1:39.1 | Hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas, happy holidays. |
| 1:42.3 | And now, Jeeves and the hard-boiled egg. |
| 1:45.0 | Sometimes of a morning, as I've sat in bed sucking down the early cup of tea and watching my man G's flitting about the room and putting out the raiment for the day, I wondered what the deuce I should do if the fellow ever took it into his head to leave me. |
| 1:58.0 | It's not so bad now I'm in New York, but in London the anxiety was frightful. |
| 2:03.6 | There used to be all sorts of attempts on the part of low blighters to sneak him away from me. |
| 2:07.9 | Young Reggie Foldjam, to my certain knowledge, offered him double what I was giving him, |
| 2:12.2 | and Alistair Bingham Reeves, who got a valet who had been known to press his trousers sideways, used to look at him, |
| 2:18.4 | when he came to see me, with a kind of glittering hungry eye which disturbed me ducidly, |
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