The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be able to do it. There seemed to me something deliberately fat-headed in the way she persisted in missing the gist.

-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.

You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.

I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.