extricating young gussie

', I am not interested in your totterings and tricklings. She bosses my cousin, Gussie Mannering-Phipps. Brilliant story with a lovely twist in the tail - and it is wonderful to see where it all began - but - for that reason - as this story is not as strong as many of the other , more famous volumes) perhaps this is one for fans only - of which I am certainly one! She did not move a muscle, but just stared at Gussie as he drooled on about the moon. I call myself George Wilson. I merely say that she routed me out of bed to listen to her painful story somewhere in the small hours. I called after him, but he didn't hear me, so I legged it in pursuit and caught him going into an office on the first floor. 'We will now, if you don't mind, step a goodish way uptown.'. Mr Riesbitter lit a cigar, and looked at us solemnly over his zareba of chins. I found him sitting on a box behind the stage, looking like one who had seen visions. She sprang it on me before breakfast. Where have you sprung from? She's playing at the Auditorium this week, and she can only just have had time to get back to her _matinee_. 'By Jove,' I said, for I am interested in this heredity stuff, 'perhaps the thing is going to be a regular family tradition, like you read about in books--a sort of Curse of the Mannering-Phippses, as it were. Love Wodehouse. ', 'Well, Aunt Julia, you know, don't you know? I was astonished at the improvement in dear old Gussie. ', 'By jove,' I said, 'it's like a sort of thingummybob, isn't it? There are no discussion topics on this book yet. To one who knew young Gussie as well as I did, the words opened up a wide field for speculation. * Wilton's Holiday A man invents a tragic love affair to get attention. Apparently there's something in the air, either the ozone or the phosphates or something, which makes you sit up and take notice. But there the thing was, and you couldn't get away from it. And we took the subway to where Gussie, the human film, was earning his thirty-five per. Extricating Young Gussie 1 First published in 1915, in The Saturday Evening Post (New York), this is the first Bertie story; it explains his residence in New York during the first four Jeeves stories, published in the early book we’re reading, My Man Jeeves. By the time I had strolled up and down once or twice, seeing the sights and letting the white chappie's corrective permeate my system, I was feeling that I wouldn't care if Gussie and I never met again, and I'm dashed if I didn't suddenly catch sight of the old lad, as large as life, just turning in at a doorway down the street. And, with decent luck, I saw myself leading Gussie on to the next England-bound liner and handing him over intact to Aunt Agatha. Love his writing and his humor. It was rotten. I don't know what it is about America, but the broad fact is that it's not a place where you can call yourself Augustus Mannering-Phipps. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Heredity, and so forth. 'Isn't she a wonder, Bertie?' The centenary has been commemorated with a flurry of articles (try What ho! Her eyes shone queerly. ', 'Landed this morning. It helped to get pep into the thing. - In terror of his Aunts - no changes will come of That sentiment in the future!) ', 'Joe, tell me, why did you leave England? I don't like to say such things of any aunt of mine, or I would go further and put it on record that she was giggling. I had breakfast three hours ago, and have been walking in the park ever since, trying to compose my thoughts.'. I never saw such a crowded place in my life. 'It's twenty-five years since I was in a music-hall!'. Why did I hang about upstage while you sang "Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay"? He is not clever, but he is very good-looking, and, though he has no title, the Mannering-Phippses are one of the best and oldest families in England. Extricating Young Gussie is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), being the first appearance of two of his most popular characters, the ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster.It was first published in the U.S. in the 18 September 1915 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, and in the UK in the January 1916 edition of The Strand Magazine. 'I imagine you know perfectly well why Gussie went to America, Bertie. Ever since he arrived at man's estate Gussie had been losing his head over creatures. ', 'Do you remember my giving you the ham sandwiches at Portsmouth? 1. 'Twenty-five years! ', 'Exhibit A,' I said. Booked solid! (Found online free). I knew Aunt Agatha well enough to know that, if she had come to see me, she was going to see me. He's an old boy with eyebrows, and he's Exhibit C on my list. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I suppose'--old Danby's cheerfulness waned a trifle--'I suppose your husband is with you? Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha is at her wit's end. It was first published in the United States in the 18 September 1915 issue of The Saturday Evening Post , and in the United Kingdom in the January 1916 edition of The Strand Magazine . I butted in: 'Aunt Julia wants to have a talk with you, Mr Danby. No management on earth would go on paying thirty-five dollars a week for this sort of performance. The next instant out pranced old Gussie from the wings in a purple frock-coat and a brown top-hat, grinned feebly at the audience, tripped over his feet blushed, and began to sing the Tennessee song. They made a lady of me. has to help. Typical of Wodehouse's writing style, this short story describes the adventure of a young English man sent by a very proprietary aunt to deal with a cousin entering into an undesirable relationship. As usual with Gussie Fink - Nottle he is in LOVE! * Extricating Young Gussie A Bertie and Jeeves story. Wonderful johnnies! At this juncture dear old Gussie broke off short, rose from his seat, and sprang with indescribable vim at an extraordinarily stout chappie who had suddenly appeared. It was before my time, of course, and long before I was old enough to take notice the family had made the best of it, and Aunt Agatha had pulled up her socks and put in a lot of educative work, and with a microscope you couldn't tell Aunt Julia from a genuine dyed-in-the-wool aristocrat. ', 'It's rather a long story,' I said, 'and complicated. I must say the girl was singing most awfully well, and it seemed to act on Gussie like a tonic. Bertie's Aunt sends him to America to stop his cousin from making a fool of himself with a young girl on the stage. There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them. I could go on indefinitely about brutality and lack of consideration. 'There's a great big choo-choo waiting at the deepo. [2] It was included in the collection The Man with Two Left Feet (1917). the man was perfectly right. The Canterbury's a moving-picture house now, and the old Mogul runs French revues. Take it or leave it. Refresh and try again. 'I wish I could feel like that, old top,' I said, and I took another glance at a cable that had arrived half an hour ago from Aunt Agatha. ', THE CHAPPIE (sceptically): 'You don't say! - In terror of his Aunts - no changes will come of That sentiment in the future!) It seemed such a rotten sort of world with all that kind of thing going on in it. I know you feel that your daughter is marrying beneath her, but--'. He started the refrain, and then the most frightful thing happened. ‎"Extricating Young Gussie" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the first appearance of two of his most popular characters, the ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster. There in seven words you have a complete character sketch of my Aunt Agatha. This short story is hilarious!!! Her act consisted of three songs. Take care of me.'. ', GUSSIE (rather rattled at the interruption): 'Waiting for me. I am never one of the master minds in the early morning; the old bean doesn't somehow seem to get into its stride till pretty late in the p.m.s, and I couldn't think what to do. A sort of bally freedom, if you know what I mean, that gets into your blood and bucks you up, and makes you feel that--. That is why I have come to you.'. I'll tell you the whole thing.'. I pleaded with them to think again, and they thought again, but it was no good. On the Saturday and Sunday we practically lived in a beastly little music-room at the offices of the publishers whose songs he proposed to use. I asked him what he thought would meet the case. I would be alone. He said that in a situation of that sort he usually prescribed a 'lightning whizzer', an invention of his own. What it comes to is that I can fix you up in the four-a-day, if you'll take thirty-five per. Unto the what-d'you-call-it generation, don't you know? Highly recommended for Wodehouse and Bertie fans. Oh, Joe, you can't think how proud I was of him! This was going to be Gussie's first and only. Don't let me go. ', 'My husband died a long, long while ago, Joe. I want to send a cable.'. She bosses her husband, Spencer Gregson, a battered little chappie on the Stock Exchange. James Mustich's 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die is bound to seriously expand that list... To see what your friends thought of this book. There in seven words you have a complete character sketch of my Aunt Agatha. He's that sort of chap. Bertie, I've fallen in love with the dearest girl in the world.'. Who she may be, and how or why, and who or what Mr Mosenstein may be, I cannot tell you. 'Now, let me tell ya something,' he said to Gussie. He appealed to me whether the thing didn't want a bit of pep, and I said it wanted all the pep it could get. Do not lose sight of the fact that all this was taking place on an empty stomach, shortly after the rising of the lark. Shall I ever forget the way you used to knock them with "Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay"? What was the next step? ', 'You were in the small time once, Joe. He had some excellent letters of introduction, and when he wrote home to say that he had met the most charming and beautiful girl in the world I felt quite happy. The other song that he intended to sing was one of those moon songs. We’d love your help. Extricating Young Gussie . But, Joe, you mustn't stand in the way of her marrying the man she's in love with. There I was alone in a strange city and no signs of Gussie. Perhaps each head of the family's going to marry into vaudeville for ever and ever. ', 'Bertie, old man, I feel immense. I think I've got brain fever or something. 'What is happening?' He had got back his voice and was putting the stuff over well. What I needed was reinforcements. [1] This is a great short comedy! 'Oh, Joe! What did you think all that meant, if not that I loved you? I'll tell you later. ', 'Oh, I've just got to see Abe about something. 'Do you remember the back-fall you used to do down the steps? She alluded to Gussie's governor, the late head of the family, and I am bound to say she spoke the truth. I wanted you, Julie. I never worked so hard in my life as I did to become a real lady. The ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster must stop a marriage in "Extricating Young Gussie," a romantic comedy by the masterly P. G. Wodehouse. You gotta lot to learn, but it's in you. So well done, and so well articulated by the "Audible" reader. The mater! She has very large brown eyes, a mass of soft grey hair, and the complexion of a girl of seventeen. I think it was clean too, besides one use of donkey (but that wasn't a curse word in the day). She is twenty-five years younger. Jeeves takes charge and Extricating Young Gussie An excellent performance by David Thorn on this classic comic text. He's got it in him. I have a pal who married Daisy Trimble of the Gaiety, and when I meet her now I feel like walking out of her presence backwards. Joe!' There is one head of the family who is certainly not going to do it, and that is Gussie. That's the sort of woman she is. It was not an easy cable to word, but I managed it. When she came to the end of the refrain, he took it up, and they sang it together, and the end of it was that he went off the popular hero. He got through the song somehow and limped off amidst roars of silence from the audience. There in seven words you have a complete character sketch of my Aunt Agatha. h. As usual with Gussie Fink - Nottle he is in LOVE! What do you say? and you don't care if you've got odd socks on. So I tried a couple, and, by Jove! 'Thanks awfully, old man,' he said. 'I seen you rehearse, as I promised Miss Denison I would. As luck would have it, we hadn't been in the place ten minutes when out he came. Aunt Julia gave a sort of gulp and looked at him. ', 'Why you? Rum idea! There in seven words you have a complete character sketch of my Aunt Agatha. It was clear to me by now that Aunt Agatha had picked the wrong man for this job of disentangling Gussie from the clutches of the American vaudeville profession. At first poor old Gussie asked him to stop, but the chappie said, No, it was always done. I could go on indefinitely about brutality and lack of consideration. I wished they would turn the lights up so that I could see her better. Extricating Young Gussie (1915) was Wodehouse's first story in which he introduced his central characters, Bertie and Jeeves, whom he wrote about for the rest of his life. Why did I let you have all the fat in "Fun in a Tea-Shop"? She had to come back again and again. But, as the creatures never seemed to lose their heads over him, it had never amounted to much. Have you no sort of feeling for the family? It had taken a lot of careful handling to bring him up to scratch. Fun listen! As a song, it was not a very pathetic song, being all about coons spooning in June under the moon, and so on and so forth, but Gussie handled it in such a sad, crushed way that there was genuine anguish in every line. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Gussie has fallen in love with someone quite unsuitable in New York City. This is a short novella or a long short-story, just the right length for an airplane read. He's my son and he's in the profession! ', 'Do you remember my giving you a seed-cake at Birmingham? that he might just as well stay where he is, the sheriff having a horse of his own which can do three hundred miles an hour without coughing. Bertie's formidable Aunt Agatha sends him on a mission to bring his cousin Gussie back to London. Fun little story about good old Bertie Wooster. She pitched forward into his arms, and he caught her. Its a bit like reading the first asterix comic when the drawings by underzo were all over the place, but by the end of the book the style has settled into its familiar later form. I was surprised to find the streets quite full. When I went in I had seen that there was a deucedly pretty girl sitting in that particular seat, so I had taken the next one. It can be read for free here: Under instructions from his Aunt, Bertie, heads to the U.S to bring home his cousin, Gussie. I said so. When he was gone I took up the cable and read it again. A short piece without Jeeves but fun. And then I saw she was going to start something, and I bleated weakly to Jeeves to bring me tea. I look round me, and everything seems to be absolutely corking. The ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster must stop a marriage in "Extricating Young Gussie," a romantic comedy by the masterly P. G. Wodehouse. Last edited on 28 September 2018, at 20:45. Extricating Young Gussie is an entertaining short story that was first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1915. “Extricating Young Gussie” Q&A. Hot on the heels of the Blandings centenary in June comes the 100th anniversary of P.G. I put myself unreservedly into the hands of one of the white chappies. He wasn't there. He's an artist, too. They kept telling me I had got to put it across, no matter what it cost, so that he wouldn't be ashamed of me. She was rather small, with great big eyes and a ripping smile. asked Gussie, later. No I'll tell you the truth, kid. What's bred in the bone will come out in the wash, and all that kind of thing, you know.'. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of. Joe, you don't know what I've been through for his sake. 'No,' I wrote, 'stay where you are. If I ever breakfasted at half past eight I should walk on the Embankment, trying to end it all in a watery grave. it read. It looks a rummy spot. A little chappie with a hooked nose sucked a cigarette and played the piano all day. During the next week I saw a lot of old Gussie, and was introduced to the girl. I was glad I had sent that cable to his mother. Mrs Mannering-Phipps, my aunt Julia, is, I think, the most dignified person I know. This is one of my favorite Bertie stories and sets the stage for all the New York stories. He sounded like some far-off echo of the past 'yodelling' through a woollen blanket. 'Lizzun t' me,' he said again. Welcome back. "Extricating Young Gussie" features the first appearance of some of Wodehouse's most popular and enduring characters – valet extraordinaire Jeeves (whose role in this debut story is very small) and his master Bertie Wooster (whose surname is not actually mentioned). He wasn't taking any chances. I have never met anyone who can give a better imitation of the Ancient Mariner. ', 'Watch this act and tell me what you think of it. Even though it was written in the 1900s, the main character was relatable and the plot had twists. All over the country, as August wanes, sparkling comediennes burst into bloom, the sap stirs in the veins of tramp cyclists, and last year's contortionists, waking from their summer sleep, tie themselves tentatively into knots. The girl, Ray, had been re-engaged for a second week at the Auditorium, owing to the big success of her first week. She was sitting bolt upright in a chair, staring into space. Do you remember my giving you a bag of buns when we were on the road at Bristol? I was sorry for the wretched chap, of course, but there was no denying that the thing had its bright side. 'Yes, America. The ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster must stop a marriage in "Extricating Young Gussie," a romantic comedy by the masterly P. G. Wodehouse.Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha is at her wit's end. He curveted into the room as if he had bought it and the rest of the city. For a moment I thought of cabling Aunt Agatha to come over, but reason told me that this would be overdoing it. ', 'Of course I was fond of you. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class so. 'Yes, Joe. I was just going to close my eyes and try to forget till they put Gussie's name up when I discovered that I was sitting next to a deucedly pretty girl. It's easy to see that, twenty-five years ago, she must have been something quite extraordinary to look at. The change in the mater is marvellous. ', 'What do you want in this place? He's one of those fellows who advertise each step up they take in the world by growing another chin. I merely say that she routed me out of bed to listen to her painful story somewhere in the small hours. She had shed her _grande-dame_ manner completely, and was blushing and smiling. After about half an hour the johnnies who work the card-index system at the side of the stage put up the name of Ray Denison, and there was a good deal of applause. She believes Gussie Mannerling-Phipps—her nephew and Bertie's cousin—plans to marry a … Return to "Extricating Young Gussie" page. he said, devoutly. I'm not equal to this sort of thing at such short notice. It's twenty-five years ago, but I haven't changed. Finding the 1,000 Books to Read in a Lifetime. This is no exception. 'Come back where you belong, Julie!' Celebrating 100 years of Bertie, Jeeves and Blandings by Aparna Narrain). I sucked a pencil for a while, and then I wrote the reply. The ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster must stop a marriage in "Extricating Young Gussie," a romantic comedy by the masterly P. G. Wodehouse.Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha is at her wit's end. The characters first appeared together in the story ‘Extricating Young Gussie’, published in September 1915 in the Saturday Evening Post. I had got as far as that when there was a kind of gasping cry at my elbow. When she had finally disappeared I turned to Aunt Julia. He continued to rave about her for several mails, and then this morning a letter has come from him in which he says, quite casually as a sort of afterthought, that he knows we are broadminded enough not to think any the worse of her because she is on the vaudeville stage. ', 'Oh, that's part of the story. You know how wickedly extravagant your Uncle Cuthbert was.'. He was looking most frightfully bucked. ', 'It's twenty-five years since I saw you, kid, and you don't look a day older. She had a ripping voice. Something tells me I need one now. She looked most awfully pretty; and altogether the act was, broadly speaking, a pippin. 'Well, I rather thought of tottering out for a bite of lunch later on, and then possibly staggering round to the club, and after that, if I felt strong enough, I might trickle off to Walton Heath for a round of golf. You've got to come back, kid, where you belong.'. If you feel up to it perhaps you wouldn't mind tottering round to One Hundred and Thirty-third Street and having a chat with him. The name on the door was Abe Riesbitter, Vaudeville Agent, and from the other side of the door came the sound of many voices. I cabled to Gussie's mother and made it urgent. He sang this time as if nobody loved him. The ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster must stop a marriage in "Extricating Young Gussie," a romantic comedy by the masterly P. G. Wodehouse.Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha is at her wit's end. Fun story! I want you still. Going to business or something, I take it. I was feeling like a badly wrapped brown-paper parcel. Library loan. The fact seemed to give it sacred associations for him. And now, as you heard him say, he's booked me in the small time at thirty-five dollars a week.'. She risked being late, just to come and see me through. ', THE CHAPPIE (playing chords): 'Is that so? She and old Danby are talking of reviving "Fun in a Tea-Shop", and going out on the road with it. P. G. Wodehouse Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. I merely say that she routed me out of bed to listen to her painful story somewhere in the small hours. I'm told that way back in the nineties he only had two. The ingenious valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster must stop a marriage in "Extricating Young Gussie," a romantic comedy by the masterly P. G. Wodehouse.Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha is at her wit's end. I dare say there are fellows in the world--men of blood and iron, don't you know, and all that sort of thing--whom she couldn't intimidate; but if you're a chappie like me, fond of a quiet life, you simply curl into a ball when you see her coming, and hope for the best. If I had tried to explain the affair without the aid of illustrations I should have talked all day and left her muddled up as to who was going to marry whom, and why. Wodehouse's series of comic novels featuring young British dilettante Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, and his wry valet Jeeves, who is often the cause of his salvation from increasingly entangled social situations. 'You lizzun t' me.'. It was first published in the U.S. in the 15 September 1915 issue of The Saturday Evening Post,[1] and in the UK in the January 1916 edition of The Strand Magazine. He did this all through the song. This is September the first, vaudeville's opening day. The thing had got beyond me. It can't have been half past eleven when Jeeves, my man, woke me out of the dreamless and broke the news: I thought she must be walking in her sleep, but I crawled out of bed and got into a dressing-gown. If you see a fat man with about fifty-seven chins come out of that door there grab him, for that'll be Abe. ', In the passage outside, Gussie gurgled with joy and slapped me on the back. She is like a stage duchess. I enjoyed this I enjoyed this short story very much. But she had begun before I could get it. If you do grab Abe, remember that he knows me as George Wilson. 'So you will start at once, won't you, Bertie? The characters first appeared together in the story ‘Extricating Young Gussie’, published in September 1915 in the Saturday Evening Post. What happened now was that I began, as it were, to drink her in. L'Affaire Uncle John (A Story in Letters), Short stories published in The Strand Magazine, Short stories published in The Saturday Evening Post, https://wodehouse.fandom.com/wiki/Extricating_Young_Gussie?oldid=1851. ', 'You never ought to have married out of the profession, Julie. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Everybody seemed to be looking at me. she said. and his mother and aunt are worried about him - Wooster and 'My Man Jeeves - their first appearance together - have to save him from the clutches of someone who is deemed most unsuitable - a music hall girl! You mustn't look down on him because he's a beginner. The only possible objection any reasonable chappie could find to the place is that they loose you into it from the boat at such an ungodly hour. Narrated by David Thorn. Get instant access to all your favorite books. But I did it, because I didn't want him to be ashamed of me, though all the time I was just aching to be back where I belonged.'. The girl's name, it seems, is Ray Denison, and according to Gussie she does something which he describes as a single on the big time. Well, I didn't know what it was all about, but I felt a bit out of it. Delightful listening! 'He left your Aunt Julia very little money for a woman in her position. Gussie registered respectful attention. Come along in here, and I'll tell you about it. She has an eye like a man-eating fish, and she has got moral suasion down to a fine point. ', 'Well, you see, as I was telling you when Abe came in, Ray's father used to be in the profession. And there's another reason. I never felt so bally conspicuous in my life. She sprang it on me before breakfast. 'You're here, kid,' said Old Danby, huskily. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. 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