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[doyle]

Considering how many Dom fangirls I have on my flist I thought I'd have heard about this by now, but - are he and Evangeline Lilly really engaged or is that just someone winding up the Datalounge lot?

Just finished watching the episode of Jeeves and Wooster where circumstances conspire to put them in drag. Utterly ridiculous and predictable (of course one of Bertie's friends would fall in love with 'Daphne Dolores', Jeeves' female alias) but I couldn't stop giggling at what a magnificently statuesque woman Stephen Fry makes, and how Hugh Laurie looks even less convincing than he did as Gorgeous Georgina in Blackadder Goes Forth. Come to think of it, is House his first regular role that doesn't require him to cross-dress?

I'd forgotten what a manwhore Jeeves is, too. One of the earlier episodes references his two fiancees (one of whom is a waitress of about nineteen). I'm shocked and outraged, but the episode where he and Bertie are at odds because Bertie is feeling broody and Jeeves doesn't want children made up for it.

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[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

It's in Much Obliged, Jeeves, I believe, and someone on indeedsir was kind enough to transcribe from me (it's missing from some editions, including mine, though I think it was in the one I read at school)

Jeeves explains he's burned the Ganymede Club book pages relating to Bertie (butler high treason!) and explains that they're only really intended to let new valets know what they're getting into, and that's not an issue in this case:

"...For I may hope, may I not, sir, that you will allow me to remain permanently in your service?"
"You may indeed, Jeeves. If often beats me, though, why with your superlative gifts you should want to."
"There is a tie that binds, sir."
"A what that whats?"
"A tie that binds, sir."
"Then heaven bless it, and may it continue to bind indefinately. Fate's happenstance may oft win more than toil, as the fellow said."
"What fellow would that be, sir? Thoreau?"
"No, me."
"Sir?"
"A little thing of my own. I don't know what it means, but you can take it as coming straight from the heart."
"Very good, sir."

I'm rereading Thank You, Jeeves at the moment - hee, just noticed that Bertie says he's an only child, when according to other books he has at least one sister - and it's the one with Jeeves' marvellous description of Bertie as "an agreeable young gentleman, but I would describe him as essentially one of Nature's bachelors." That make me double-take, though I assume it didn't mean 'gay as a brush' at the time it was written.

Got to try and find the book with Bertie being very upset that Jeeves is cross with him because "it rather felt like no-one loved me", I'm sure I didn't imagine that...

[lakester.livejournal.com]

Got to try and find the book with Bertie being very upset that Jeeves is cross with him because "it rather felt like no-one loved me", I'm sure I didn't imagine that...

Interrupting to say I think this is the bit you're thinking of-

Dashed upsetting, this sort of thing. If there’s one thing that gives me the pip, it’s unpleasantness in the home; and I could see that relations were going to be pretty fairly strained for a while. And, coming on top of Aunt Agatha’s bombshell about the Hemmingway girl, I don’t mind confessing it made me feel more or less as though nobody loved me.

-from 'The Inimitable Jeeves'. Can be found here (http://www.rojer.pp.ru/PGW/PGW%20-%20The%20Inimitable%20Jeeves.txt) if you don't mind the formatting style.

For J/W quotes try indeedsir, specifically here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/indeedsir/29400.html), here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/indeedsir/28089.html), here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/indeedsir/40396.html) and here (http://www.livejournal.com/community/indeedsir/58763.html).