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Right Ho, Jeeves
·
P. G. Wodehouse
74
“A
bit
elaborate,”
I
said,
trying
to
put
the
thing
in
as
kindly
a
light
as
possible.
“Your
old
failing.
You
can
see
that
it’s
a
bit
elaborate?”
“Possibly
the
plan
I
suggested
might
be
considered
open
to
that
criticism,
sir,
but
faute
de
mieux----”
“I
don’t
get
you,
Jeeves.”
“A
French
expression,
sir,
signifying
‘for
want
of
anything
better’.”
A
moment
before,
I
had
been
feeling
for
this
wreck
of
a
once
fine
thinker
nothing
but
a
gentle
pity.
These
words
jarred
the
Wooster
pride,
inducing
asperity.
“I
understand
perfectly
well
what
faute
de
mieux
means,
Jeeves.
I
did
not
recently
spend
two
months
among
our
Gallic
neighbours
for
nothing.
Besides,
I
remember
that
one
from
school.
What
caused
my
bewilderment
was
that
you
should
be
employing
the
expression,
well
knowing
that
there
is
no
bally
faute
de
mieux
about
it
at
all.
Where
do
you
get
that
faute-de-mieux
stuff?
Didn’t
I
tell
you
I
had
everything
taped
out?”
“Yes,
sir,
but----”
“What
do
you
mean--but?”
“Well,
sir----”
“Push
on,
Jeeves.
I
am
ready,
even
anxious,
to
hear
your
views.”
“Well,
sir,
if
I
may
take
the
liberty
of
reminding
you
of
it,
your
plans
in
the
past
have
not
always
been
uniformly
successful.”
There
was
a
silence--rather
a
throbbing
one--during
which
I
put
on
my
waistcoat
in
a
marked
manner.
Not
till
I
had
got
the
buckle
at
the
back
satisfactorily
adjusted
did
I
speak.
“It
is
true,
Jeeves,”
I
said
formally,
“that
once
or
twice
in
the
past
I
may
have
missed
the
bus.
This,
however,
I
attribute
purely
to
bad
luck.”
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