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Jeeves and an Excess of Prudence by rowen_r (PG)
Fandom: JEEVES & WOOSTER
Pairing: Jeeves/Bertie Wooster
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rowen_r
Author Website: check lj for updates
Why this must be read:
rowen_r has captured the essence of a Wodehouse farce without too much canonical detail to confuse the newbies. (I'm breaking you in gently.) Her Bertie voice is perfect, and wry humour is to be had in abundance.
Bertie meets and wins both a girl (Prudence) and a Suit (incomparable), but Jeeves is happy with neither. Then an unexpected secret meeting sends Bertie into a panic...
Having thought all this through, I decided direct action was called for:
“Jeeves!”
“Sir?”
“I need to talk to you. Things must be made clear.”
“Sir?”
“I intend to marry Miss Caruthers.”
“I had inferred as much, sir.” There was enough scepticism in his voice to serve as a dictionary definition of the word “incredulous”, but I pressed on.
“And I am keeping the Suit.”
“Very good, sir.”
“And if you think you can make me change my mind about either, then you are wrong.”
“Very good, sir.”
“And if you think that saying “Very good, sir” in a tone which suggests that if it weren’t for servantly decorum you’d be saying “Get stuffed” instead is going to affect me in the slightest then you’re wrong. Prudence is utterly divine and perfect and so is the Suit. So you can be as unconvinced as you like, because you’re mistaken. In fact you’re utterly wrong. As wrong as … well, as wrong as that king.”
“King, sir?”
“Oh, you know, that king. In the play. You know, he trusted some blighter he shouldn't have trusted and there was a plot and some fighting and everyone fell in love or turned out to be somebody else and then someone made a speech and everybody died… something like that.”
“Sir?”
“It was Shakespeare, I think. I mean, it sounds like a Shakespeare play, doesn’t it?”
“It sounds like all of them, sir.”
Jeeves and an Excess of Prudence
Pairing: Jeeves/Bertie Wooster
Author on LJ:
rowen_rAuthor Website: check lj for updates
Why this must be read:
rowen_r has captured the essence of a Wodehouse farce without too much canonical detail to confuse the newbies. (I'm breaking you in gently.) Her Bertie voice is perfect, and wry humour is to be had in abundance.Bertie meets and wins both a girl (Prudence) and a Suit (incomparable), but Jeeves is happy with neither. Then an unexpected secret meeting sends Bertie into a panic...
Having thought all this through, I decided direct action was called for:
“Jeeves!”
“Sir?”
“I need to talk to you. Things must be made clear.”
“Sir?”
“I intend to marry Miss Caruthers.”
“I had inferred as much, sir.” There was enough scepticism in his voice to serve as a dictionary definition of the word “incredulous”, but I pressed on.
“And I am keeping the Suit.”
“Very good, sir.”
“And if you think you can make me change my mind about either, then you are wrong.”
“Very good, sir.”
“And if you think that saying “Very good, sir” in a tone which suggests that if it weren’t for servantly decorum you’d be saying “Get stuffed” instead is going to affect me in the slightest then you’re wrong. Prudence is utterly divine and perfect and so is the Suit. So you can be as unconvinced as you like, because you’re mistaken. In fact you’re utterly wrong. As wrong as … well, as wrong as that king.”
“King, sir?”
“Oh, you know, that king. In the play. You know, he trusted some blighter he shouldn't have trusted and there was a plot and some fighting and everyone fell in love or turned out to be somebody else and then someone made a speech and everybody died… something like that.”
“Sir?”
“It was Shakespeare, I think. I mean, it sounds like a Shakespeare play, doesn’t it?”
“It sounds like all of them, sir.”
Jeeves and an Excess of Prudence
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