The Inimitable Jeeves, chapter 13, Twing Hall, next morning
Bingo reads Bertie his poem to Cynthia, then Claude and Eustace burst in to explain Steggles's book on the Sermon Handicap and why Heppenstall is a sitter, and Bertie agrees to finance the syndicate while Jeeves declines a flutter.
The text is on its way.
Aside, years before In Bertie's day Heppenstall never preached under half an hour, and his sermon on Brotherly Love ran forty-five minutes.
Aside, a fortnight before Heppenstall dropped pages from his sermon-case and preached under twenty minutes, misleading Steggles into giving him a generous handicap.
Present: Bertie Wooster, Bingo Little, Claude, Eustace, Jeeves
Also there: the race-card, When Cynthia Smiles
Mentioned: Lady Cynthia, Lord Bittlesham, Lord Wickhammersley, the Rev. Francis Heppenstall, the Rev. Joseph Tucker, the Rev. Leonard Starkie, Rupert Steggles, the Brotherly Love sermon✦︎, Eustace's letter✦︎, Musk-Rat♞︎, Pink Pill♞︎, the reading-party⁂, the Sermon Handicap✦︎, the syndicate⁂, Twing church