What with excellent browsing and sluicing and cheery conversation…

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What with excellent browsing and sluicing and cheery conversation and what-not, the afternoon passed quite happily.

P.G. Wodehouse

1916

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1916

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P.G. Wodehouse

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Wodehouse, P. G. "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest." Carry On, Jeeves. Herbert Jenkins, 1925. Originally published in Saturday Evening Post, 9 Dec. 1916.

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