The Wooster Papers

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My Man Jeeves

1919. 4 chapters, 40 scenes.

Chapter 1: Leave It to Jeeves

  1. Bertie illustrates Jeeves's omniscience: he was right about the check suit and about Wonderchild in the Lincolnshire, so Bertie makes him the brains of the establishment.Chapter 1JEEVES.An illustration
  2. Bertie explains how he came to New York and met Corky, a would-be portrait-painter living on an allowance from his bird-loving, jute-rich uncle Alexander Worple.Chapter 1
  3. Corky brings his fiancée Muriel Singer to ask how to break the news to his uncle, and Jeeves proposes that she 'write' a children's bird book dedicated to Worple, at Bertie's expense.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flatTHE VERY FIRST WORDS I SPOKE WERE, ' CORKY, HOW ABOUT YOUR UNCLE?
  4. The first copies of The Children's Book of American Birds arrive at Corky's place, full of praise for Worple, and Bertie and Corky think it a cert.Chapter 1, Corky's studio
  5. Corky reports that his uncle has written Muriel a warm letter inviting her to call.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
  6. Back in town, Bertie finds Muriel dining alone and learns she has left the stage and married Corky's uncle, who invites Bertie to dinner.Chapter 1, the quiet restaurantI WANT YOU TO MEET MY HUSBAND, MR. WOOSTER., MR. WOOSTER IS A FRIEND OF BRUCE'S, ALEXANDER.
  7. Bertie tells Jeeves that Muriel has married the uncle, and Jeeves admits he had foreseen it but did not like to say.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
  8. Having avoided Corky for months, Bertie reads in the paper that Mrs. Alexander Worple has had a son and heir, and is too sorry for Corky to eat his breakfast.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
  9. Bertie finds Corky painting the baby's portrait for his uncle, his first commission, and hating the infant who has done him out of his inheritance.Chapter 1, Corky's studioTHERE WAS CORKY, HUNCHED UP AT THE EASEL, PAINTING AWAY, WHILE ON THE MODEL THRONE SAT A SEVERE-LOOKING FEMALE HOLDING A BABY.
  10. Corky telephones that the portrait is finished and his uncle is coming to inspect it, and Bertie agrees to come only if he may bring Jeeves.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
  11. Worple is outraged by the leering portrait and orders Corky into the jute business, but Jeeves suggests the picture as a comic series, 'The Adventures of Baby Blobbs'.Chapter 1, Corky's studioAND THEN RE GOT II-SUDDENLY, WHEN HE WASN'T SET FOR THE PUNCH; AND HE ROCKED BACK ON HIS HEELS.
  12. Corky's series is a hit and has rewarded Jeeves generously, and Bertie gives in when Jeeves vetoes the blue suit with the faint red stripe.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat

Chapter 2: Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest

  1. Fresh from defying Jeeves over a hat and a pink tie, Bertie is called on by Lady Malvern, who leaves her son Motty to live with him while she tours America, and Jeeves offers no sympathy.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flatAn illustrationHE WAS SITTING WITH HIS MOUTH NUZZLING THE STICK, BLINKING AT THE WALL.
  2. Motty's luggage and unopened books arrive, and late that night he is found on the doormat dead drunk and put to bed by Jeeves.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  3. Cured by Jeeves's pick-me-up, Motty announces that he means to yield to every temptation of the great city for his month of freedom.Chapter 2, Motty's roomWHAT HO !' I SAID. " WHAT HO!' SAID MOTTY
  4. Bertie's attempt to damp Motty's revels at supper fails, Motty is seen being thrown out of a low restaurant, and Bertie wastes away with worry.Chapter 2DECENT MIRTH AND ALL THAT SORT OF THING ARE ALL RIGHT, BUT I DO BAR DANCING ON TABLES.
  5. Bertie swallows his pride and asks Jeeves for a scheme to deal with Motty, but Jeeves, still pipped about the hat and tie, has none.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  6. After Motty brings singing pals home at three a.m., Bertie is seized in the dark by Motty's bull-terrier Rollo, who fawns on Jeeves, and Bertie decides to flee to Rocky Todd's.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  7. Back from Long Island, Bertie learns that Rollo has gone and Motty is in prison for assaulting a constable, and Jeeves suggests telling Lady Malvern he has gone to Boston.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flatHE ASSAULTED A CONSTABLE, SIR.
  8. Lady Malvern, having seen Motty breaking stones in prison, denounces Bertie until Jeeves persuades her Motty went in voluntarily to research her book; the grateful Bertie has the pink tie burnt, sends for the Longacre and learns Jeeves bet Motty into punching a policeman.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flatWILMOT, DRESSED IN A STRIPED SUIT, WAS SEATED BESIDE A PILE OF STONES WITH A HAMMER IN HIS HANDS.

Chapter 3: Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg

  1. Bertie recalls how London rivals tried to poach the indispensable Jeeves, and introduces the case of Bicky and his uncle.Chapter 3An illustration
  2. Bicky, whose uncle the Duke of Chiswick thinks him busy in business instead of on a Colorado ranch, begs for help, and Jeeves proposes lending him Bertie's flat to pose as its owner.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flatI HAD DECIDED-RIGHTLY OR WRONGLY— TO GROW A MOUSTACHE, AND THIS HAD CUT JEEVES TO THE QUICK.
  3. The Duke arrives after a row over his cab fare, marvels at the cost of 'Bicky's' flat, and Bertie assures him Bicky is a business success.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  4. Leaving the lift, Bertie meets Bicky coming back from the dock and tells him the old boy is upstairs and rattled.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  5. Jeeves reports that the Duke, convinced Bicky is prospering, has cancelled his allowance.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  6. A despairing Bicky refuses Bertie's money and dreams of a chicken farm, and Jeeves suggests charging Americans a fee to shake hands with the Duke.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flatHE HAD THE ASPECT OF ONE WHO HAD BEEN SOAKED WITH WHAT THE NEWS- PAPER CHAPPIES CALL ' SOME BLUNT INSTRU- MENT. • ..JEEVES, MR. BICKERSIETH IS STILL UP THE POLE. ANY IDEAS?
  7. Nobody will pay to meet the Duke except a delicatessen keeper offering ham and an anarchist who wants to kick him.Chapter 3
  8. Jeeves announces he has signed up eighty-seven boosters from Birdsburg, Missouri, to shake hands with the Duke for a hundred and fifty dollars.Chapter 3, Bertie's bedroom
  9. Bicky gets the Duke to agree to meet 'a few pals' the next afternoon, provided there are no reporters.Chapter 3, the sitting-room
  10. Simms's demand for proof that the Duke is a duke exposes the paid handshaking, the furious Duke refuses Bicky a penny, and Jeeves's suggestion of selling the story to the papers makes him take Bicky on as secretary at five hundred a year.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flatALLOW ME TO ASSURE YOU, SIR,' HE SAID, IN A RUMMY KIND OF VOICE, "'THEN THAT'S ALL RIGHT,' SAID THE CHAPPIE, HEARTILY. 'IHAT WAS ALL ' THAT I AM THE DUKE OF CHISWICK. WE WANTED TO KNOW. LET THE THING GO ON.
  11. To reward Jeeves, Bertie has him shave off the moustache.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat

Chapter 4: The Aunt and the Sluggard

  1. Rocky wakes Bertie with his aunt's letter demanding he live it up in New York and report weekly, and Jeeves proposes that he do the town himself and supply notes for Rocky's letters.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flatAn illustrationREAD THIS, BERTIE!
  2. Jeeves enjoys himself in the cabarets taking notes, Rocky turns them into dazzling letters to his aunt, and Bertie compares them with his own feeble letter to Freddie.Chapter 4HE WAS SITTING AT A TABLE ON THE EDGE OF THE DANCING FLOOR, DOING HIMSELF REMARKABLY WELL.
  3. Aunt Isabel turns up at the flat believing it to be Rocky's, takes Bertie for a sponging intruder and Jeeves for Rocky's man, and moves in, driving Bertie out to an hotel.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flatMISs ROCKMETTELLER
  4. Bertie mopes valetless at the hotel until Rocky telephones from the Midnight Revels in agony, squeezed into Bertie's evening clothes, his allowance stopped and his aunt cured and thriving.Chapter 4, the St. Aurea
  5. Jeeves brings Bertie more clothes but has no plan, and talks instead of his own aunt.Chapter 4, the St. Aurea
  6. Bertie takes to the cabarets again and glimpses a suffering Rocky with his aunt, who seems to be wondering where the celebrities are.Chapter 4
  7. Rocky begs Bertie to join him and his suspicious, brooding aunt at the Maison Pierre, and then to come back to the flat for a drink.Chapter 4, the Maison PierreI FOUND ROCKY STANDING BESIDE ME, WITH A SORT OF MIXED EXPRESSION OF WISTFULNESS AND APOPLEXY ON HIS FACE.
  8. Converted by Jimmy Mundy, to whose meeting Jeeves 'mistakenly' took her, Aunt Isabel begs Rocky to give up wicked New York and live in the country, and he joyfully agrees.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flatSTOP!' BARKED THE AUNT, AND HE DROPPED IT.HE POINTED RIGHT AT WHERE I WAS SITTING, AND SHOUTED ' THIS MEANS YOU !
  9. Back in his flat, Bertie learns that Jeeves sent Aunt Isabel to the meeting on purpose, inspired by his own aunt, and meekly gives up his green tie.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat