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Right Ho, Jeeves
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P. G. Wodehouse
15
And
he
was
attending
that
fancy-dress
ball,
mark
you--not,
like
every
other
well-bred
Englishman,
as
a
Pierrot,
but
as
Mephistopheles--this
involving,
as
I
need
scarcely
stress,
not
only
scarlet
tights
but
a
pretty
frightful
false
beard.
Rummy,
you’ll
admit.
However,
one
masks
one’s
feelings.
I
betrayed
no
vulgar
astonishment,
but,
as
I
say,
what-hoed
with
civil
nonchalance.
He
grinned
through
the
fungus--rather
sheepishly,
I
thought.
“Oh,
hullo,
Bertie.”
“Long
time
since
I
saw
you.
Have
a
spot?”
“No,
thanks.
I
must
be
off
in
a
minute.
I
just
came
round
to
ask
Jeeves
how
he
thought
I
looked.
How
do
you
think
I
look,
Bertie?”
Well,
the
answer
to
that,
of
course,
was
“perfectly
foul”.
But
we
Woosters
are
men
of
tact
and
have
a
nice
sense
of
the
obligations
of
a
host.
We
do
not
tell
old
friends
beneath
our
roof-tree
that
they
are
an
offence
to
the
eyesight.
I
evaded
the
question.
“I
hear
you’re
in
London,”
I
said
carelessly.
“Oh,
yes.”
“Must
be
years
since
you
came
up.”
“Oh,
yes.”
“And
now
you’re
off
for
an
evening’s
pleasure.”
He
shuddered
a
bit.
He
had,
I
noticed,
a
hunted
air.
“Pleasure!”
“Aren’t
you
looking
forward
to
this
rout
or
revel?”
“Oh,
I
suppose
it’ll
be
all
right,”
he
said,
in
a
toneless
voice.
“Anyway,
I
ought
to
be
off,
I
suppose.
The
thing
starts
round
about
eleven.
I
told
my
cab
to
wait....
Will
you
see
if
it’s
there,
Jeeves?”
“Very
good,
sir.”
There
was
something
of
a
pause
after
the
door
had
closed.
A
certain
constraint.
I
mixed
myself
a
beaker,
while
Gussie,
a
glutton
for
punishment,
stared
at
himself
in
the
mirror.
Finally
I
decided
that
it
would
be
best
to
let
him
know
that
I
was
abreast
of
his
affairs.
It
might
be
that
it
would
ease
his
mind
to
confide
in
a
sympathetic
man
of
experience.
I
have
generally
found,
with
those
under
the
influence,
that
what
they
want
more
than
anything
is
the
listening
ear.
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