The Wooster Papers

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Gussie's speech✦︎

Also Augustus’s speech

Gussie's drunken speech at the Market Snodsbury prize-giving.

Connections

dealings

Talked about, but not there

  1. Bertie finds a terrified Gussie rehearsing his prize-giving speech on the lawn, tells him Madeline loves him, and is told Gussie will never try proposing again.Chapter 16, the garden at Brinkley, as my speech
  2. Bertie brings the jug to his room, learns Jeeves has already added gin, adds more himself and hides it behind Uncle Tom's photograph, just as Gussie bursts in drunk on neat whisky from the dining-room decanter.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as his speech
  3. Bertie finds Angela in the summerhouse and rebukes her for getting engaged to Gussie only to score off Tuppy, but she refuses to back down and tells him to go and boil his head.Chapter 19, the summer-house, as his speech
  4. Over the cold salmon a jubilant Aunt Dahlia praises Gussie's speech and announces that Anatole has withdrawn his notice, until Seppings reports that Gussie is making faces at Anatole through his skylight.Chapters 19–20, the Brinkley dining-room, as that exhibition of his