the porringer✦︎
Also porringer, the thing, the object, a very valuable bit of old silver, an old silver what-not, silver thing, silver something, the loot
L. P. Runkle's Charles the Second silver-gilt porringer, worth nine thousand pounds, which he brought to sell to Uncle Tom; Aunt Dahlia pinches it and Bingley finds it in Bertie's room.
Connections 6 In scenes 1 Talked about 8 Connections
dealings
Scenes it is in
Sneaking into the Blue Room to return the porringer, Bertie treads on Gus the cat, wakes Runkle, and covers himself by saying Aunt Dahlia wants Runkle to take photographs. Chapter 15, the Blue Room Talked about, but not there
Outside the French window Bertie overhears Spode, now Lord Sidcup, tell the camera chap that Wooster is a thief, and the camera chap vows the stiffest sentence if Bertie touches the silver he has brought to sell Uncle Tom. Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room, as a very valuable bit of old silver Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in. Chapters 5–7, the Brinkley drawing-room, as an old silver what-not Aunt Dahlia returns furious because Runkle will not part with a penny for Tuppy and Angela's wedding, and reveals she has pinched his porringer. Chapters 14–15, the Brinkley drawing-room, as his porringer Runkle storms down, accuses Bertie of stealing the porringer and sends Seppings for the police, and Jeeves invents a jury summons so Bertie can slip up to London to think. Chapter 15, Brinkley Court, as porringer Bertie drives back from London with none of his problems solved and is hauled out of the car by egg-spattered Ginger, who says the debate was a riot, Florence has dropped him, and he is off to London to marry Magnolia. Chapter 16, the drive Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Spode, put off politics by the potato, has kept his title and gone off to London with Madeline, freeing Bertie from marrying her. Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room Runkle gloats that Bertie is bound for prison, egg-covered Florence announces she will marry Bertie after all, then drops him when Runkle says he stole the porringer, and Runkle goes off to meet Bingley. Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as a valuable silver porringer Bingley has found the porringer in Bertie's room and Runkle offers to drop charges in exchange for Anatole, until Jeeves reveals from the club book that Runkle bribed a juror and jumped bail in America, and Aunt Dahlia turns the tables over Tuppy's money. Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as his foul porringer
A curious connection
L. P. Runkle : The obese financier staying at Brinkley, who did Tuppy's father out of his invention's profits, owns the porringer and accuses Bertie of stealing it.
L. P. Runkle has brought to sell the porringer, Much Obliged, Jeeves , chapter 5
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 pinches the porringer, Much Obliged, Jeeves , chapter 14
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 identifies from a Sotheby's catalogue the porringer, Much Obliged, Jeeves , chapter 15
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THE VERY FIRST WORDS I SPOKE WERE, ' CORKY, HOW ABOUT YOUR UNCLE? Leave It to Jeeves , Alfred Leete, The Strand Magazine, June 1916WHAT HO !' I SAID. " WHAT HO!' SAID MOTTY Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest , Alfred Leete, The Strand Magazine, March 1917DECENT 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 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 191718 more ALLOW ME TO ASSURE YOU, SIR,' HE SAID, IN A RUMMY KIND OF VOICE, "'THEN THAT'S ALL RIGHT,' SAID THE CHAPPIE, HEARTILY. 'IHAT WAS ALL ' THAT I AM THE DUKE OF CHISWICK. WE WANTED TO KNOW. LET THE THING GO ON. Jeeves shied like a startled mustang. "I beg your pardon, sir," he said. "You are surely not proposing to appear in public in that thing ? Before I knew what was happening, the girl had darted at me, kissed me, and legged it from the room. 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? What the devil are you talking about ? "* "I'm reading you my poem. The one I wrote to Cynthia last night. Something round and blue and buttony shot through the back-door and buzzed for the archway like a mustang. Good Lord, Jeeves!" I said. "What on earth's that?" "Mr. Little sent it to me, sir, and desired me to bring it to your notice. What are you doing here?" " I'm tidying your room. It's my last Saturday's act of kindness. Aunt Dablia was drinking something that smelled like a leak in the gas-pipe. We are all waiting for you in the large schoolroom." "But I don't know a bit what to talk about." "Why, anything, Mr. Wooster. Be bright—bright and amusing. Before I knew what I was doing I had begun the climb for life. I pointed out," said Jeeves, "that you were a light-hearted young gentleman who might well do such a thing as a practical joke. I don't know what the record is for popping out and buying aniseed, but I should think I hold it. There was a sound like a mighty, rushing wind and something extraordinarily substantial bounded into the sitting-room. He waved the cigarette at me in what I considered a dashed patronizing manner. I was glancing idly this way and that, when suddenly my eye was caught by something that looked familiar. What I want," I said, "is petrol." "What you'll get," said the bloke, "is a thick ear. 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.
