Re: Tophats - The Gentleman's Game
"A telegram for you sir"
"what is it Jeeves"
"I believe it is from your Aunt Agatha, sir"
"Egad Jeeves! What do you think that blight on the landscape wants with me"
"Sir, perhaps you have not stayed abreast of current developments vis-a-vis, the empire. Your aunt Agatha is engaged to sir Fannon Cadsbury, the earl of Waycaster and her majesty's new secretary of defense"
"Egad Jeeves! My Aunt so close to the-how do you say- reigns of power. Bad luck for the old empire wot?"
"Perhaps sir. His lordship is rallying his dukes. He apparently plans a program of 'aggressive expansion' in regards to what her ladyship refers to as 'barbaric savages.'"
"Well I should think the savages of Borneo would be lucky to only face the might of the queen's finest. I have to meet with my Aunt Agatha."
"Indeed sir. Will that be all."
"Ah Jeeves...One of your morning concoctions would hit the spot right about now."
"I will prepare one immediately, sir."
And the stout fellow vanished in that way he does like a disapparating Hindu Fakir.
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