Bastable

Also called A beefy butler sort of bird

Bingley's beefy, haughty butler, who places his bets and turns callers away.

Connections

dealings

is employed by Brinkley 2
snubs Aunt Dahlia 1
disapproves of Bertie Wooster 1

Scenes they are in

Bertie calls on Bingley at 5 Ormond Crescent to ask for the club book, but Bingley patronizes him, boasts of how he stole it to protect his bets on McCorkadale, and Bertie leaves having achieved nothing.Chapter 11, the library, as the butler

Talked about, but not there

Aunt Dahlia hurls a Rex Stout at Bertie for failing, is herself turned away by Bastable, and then Jeeves arrives to reveal he slipped Bingley a Mickey Finn and took back the club book, whereupon she sets off to tackle L. P. Runkle.Chapters 11–12, the Brinkley drawing-room

Pictured 6

DECENT MIRTH AND ALL THAT SORT OF THING ARE ALL RIGHT, BUT I DO BAR DANCING ON TABLES.Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest, Alfred Leete, The Strand Magazine, March 1917

I FOUND ROCKY STANDING BESIDE ME, WITH A SORT OF MIXED EXPRESSION OF WISTFULNESS AND APOPLEXY ON HIS FACE.The Aunt and the Sluggard, Alfred Leete, The Strand Magazine, August 1916

Right from the first day he came to me, I have looked on Jeeves as a sort of guide, philosopher, and friend.Jeeves in the Spring-Time, A. Wallis Mills, The Strand Magazine, December 1921

I pulled the pearls out of the drawer and held them up. "I say, don't want to interrupt you and all that sort of thing, but aren't these the little chaps?Aunt Agatha Takes the Count, A. Wallis Mills, The Strand Magazine, April 1922

2 more

He had lifted the sheets and was gazing at the corpse of the hot-water bottle. "Did you do this?" he said in a low, strangled sort of voice.

TUPPY WAS JUST STANDING THERE, LOOKING MODEST, WHEN THERE WAS A THUNDER OF LARGE FEET AND THE RED-HAIRED BIRD, GALLOPING UP, SEIZED HIM BY THE NECK, HURLED HIM TO EARTH, AND FELL ON HIM.