the bookshop assistant
Also called The moth-eaten old bird
The moth-eaten old shop assistant baffled by Bertie's request for Spinoza.
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- Bertie goes to a bookshop for Jeeves's Spinoza, musing on Lord Worplesdon, is handed Spindrift by a baffled assistant, and suddenly meets his former fiancée Florence Craye.Chapters 1–2, the bookshop, as
The moth-eaten old bird
- Florence finds Bertie apparently buying her novel Spindrift, autographs it, is thrilled to hear he reads Spinoza, and gives him a melting look that sends him fleeing.Chapter 2, the bookshop, as
moth-eaten bird