Everard's picture✦︎
Also the picture, another canvas, one of his things, the canvas, Edward Fothergill’s regrettable product, Edward Fothergill’s masterpiece, the Venus, the picture we have with us
Everard Fothergill's own valuable classical painting, which Bertie cuts out and burns by mistake.
Connections 5 In scenes 3 Talked about 1 Connections
dealings
Scenes it is in
Aunt Dahlia shows Bertie the Venus that Edward Fothergill painted and Everard loathes, and orders him to steal and burn it that night, a deal she has struck with Cornelia for the serial. Chapter 2, the dining-room at Marsham, as another canvas Bertie creeps downstairs and cuts a picture out of its frame with four quick strokes. Chapter 2, the dining-room at Marsham, as the canvas Bertie, Aunt Dahlia and Jeeves snip up and burn the canvas until Jeeves notices the last scrap is signed Everard Fothergill. Chapter 2, Bertie's room at Marsham, as Edward Fothergill’s regrettable product Talked about, but not there
Bertie catches Edward Fothergill stealing back his own Venus and swears secrecy, then refuses Jeeves's plan to have him found stunned by burglars, and is promptly knocked out from behind. Chapter 2, the hall at Marsham, as Everard’s very valuable picture
A curious connection
Jeeves : Bertie's valet, who goes with him to America, breaks the Marsham window and sees off Jas Waterbury by posing as a broker's man.
Jeeves helps snip up and burn Everard's picture, Other Stories , chapter 2
Aunt Dahlia : Mrs Travers, Bertie's good aunt and owner of Milady's Boudoir, who sends him to steal a picture and wants him to play Santa Claus at her children's party.
Aunt Dahlia helps snip up and burn Everard's picture, Other Stories , chapter 2
Bertie Wooster : The narrator, sent to New York after his cousin Gussie, roped in to steal a picture, and pursued by a greasy theatrical agent.
Bertie Wooster cuts out by mistake Everard's picture, Other Stories , chapter 2
Another
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HE WAS SITTING WITH HIS MOUTH NUZZLING THE STICK, BLINKING AT THE WALL. Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest , Alfred Leete, The Strand Magazine, March 1917WILMOT, DRESSED IN A STRIPED SUIT, WAS SEATED BESIDE A PILE OF STONES WITH A HAMMER IN HIS HANDS. Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest , Alfred Leete, The Strand Magazine, March 1917HE HAD THE ASPECT OF ONE WHO HAD BEEN SOAKED WITH WHAT THE NEWS- PAPER CHAPPIES CALL ' SOME BLUNT INSTRU- MENT. • .. Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg , Alfred Leete, The Strand Magazine, August 1917I 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 191625 more Right from the first day he came to me, I have looked on Jeeves as a sort of guide, philosopher, and friend. I ran into young Bingo Little, looking perfectly foul in a crimson -satin tie decorated with horseshoes. Half a minute later I was shaking hands with the fattest man I have ever seen in my life. It was the lunch of a life- time, but I might have been eating sawdust for all the good it did me. A .w.M; The policeman was shoving his way back through the crowd, with Bingo in his right hand and Comrade Butt in his left. Let's suppose that you and Jeeves entered. Jeeves would stand at a fixed point holding a potato. You would have your head in a sack, and would grope about trying to find Jeeves and making a noise like a cat. Jeeves came in with the tea, but the poor girl was so worked up that she didn't wait for him to pop off before going on with her complaint I fancy, sir, that this must be the key you require." It was Jeeves. I could have massacred the man. I fear, sir," sighed Jeeves, "that when it comes to a matter of cooks ladies have but a rudimentary sense of morality. I caught the table squarely with my right hip and knocked it endways. It seemed to me for a moment as if the whole world had dissolved into a kind of cataract of glass and china. Well, you are a sportsman!" observed the young person, with great enthusiasm. Roberta welcomed me with a warmth which, I'm bound to say, had set the old heart-strings futtering a bit. This fiend in human shape left me hanging in the void with no means of getting, ashore to my home and loved ones. THE NEXT MOMENT THE DOOR HAD OPENED, LIGHT WAS STREAMING THROUGH IT, AND THE BLOKE WITH THE VOICE HAD GRABBED ME BY THE ARM. Jeeves was standing beside me with a cup of tea on a tray. " Merry Christmas, sir ! The moment I saw that banana splash on Tuppy's shirt-front I realized how infinitely more effective and artistic it was than any potato could have been. IN SHIMMERED JEEVES, COMPLETE WITH TEA-TRAY AND PRECEDED BY DOG. WHICH LEAPED UPON THE BED He sprang forward, trod on the golf-ball, and took one of the finest tasses I have ever witnessed. With the aid of a fork and two peas I explained to her how my opponent that afternoon had stymied me on the tenth. I returned to Jeeves, who was showing the kid Clementina how to make a rabbit with a pocket-handkerchief. There, standing behind a desk, with the steel-rimmed spectacles glittering as nastily as on the day when I had seen them across Aunt Agatha's luncheon- table, was the boss in person. cRong, i So there you have it, Jeeves," I said. "The problem is one that will exercise your intelligence to the utmost. I was chatting with old Mr. Anstruther when suddenly the two kids hove in view. I have never seen the sunshine fade out of anybody's face as quickly as it did out of Bingo's. He uttered a sharp, wailing cry. My friend, Bertie Wooster," said Tuppy to the girl, in what seemed to me rather an apologetic manner. You know—as if he would have preferred to hush me up.
