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Synopsis
It was the instinct of self-preservation
transcending better judgment and personal inclination that sent
Bertie Wooster hot foot to Totleigh Towers; any lesser impulse
could not have persuaded him to within twenty miles of the
place. For Totleigh Towers was the residence of Sir Watkyn
Bassett, whose considerable fortune� according to Bertie�had
been amassed from trousering the fines he had meted out during a
long career as a metropolitan magistrate. A harsh judgment,
perhaps� but there, Bertie had suffered much at the hands of
Bassett, and even more at the hands of the man's daughter,
Madeleine, whose performances in the past had shown her to be
the most predatory female in the county.
Thus, when the news broke that Madeleine had become engaged to
Gussie Fink-Nottle, Bertie's relief was intense; the future held
no further terrors. But, as he should have guessed, the wheels
soon began to grind. Madeleine, a confirmed moulder of men�
particularly of the men she planned to marry�went smartly to
work in converting Gussie to vegetarian ideals. And she could
not have hit him where it hurt more. Gussie, a lover of red
meat, pleaded, resisted and finally, when he could stand no
more, sought the solace, advice and assistance of his boyhood
friend, Bertram.
Long experience of smoothing out lovers' tiffs revealed to
Bertie that what the situation called for was a raisonneur
capable of dispelling dissension by the sweet light of reason.
And it was in this capacity that he journeyed to Totleigh, an
apprehensive ambassador but spurred by the awful knowledge that
if he should fail in his mission Madeleine would inevitably
marry him on the rebound. He could imagine no more ghastly
prospect.
In these mounting storm clouds on the Wooster horizon, there was
but one ray of comfort�the presence of Jeeves, steadfast and
reassuring. No cause has ever been lost while Jeeves was around,
and in this uproarious novel his mastermind again rises
effortlessly to the occasion. |
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