Ten passengers are given clearance to board a carriage and leave the city, with the possibility of crossing into England. The Prussian army advances while the French army retreats. This is the second story in the preview of The Stories of John Cheever. Garrison, his mother-in-law, criticizes some of the flowers and wants the lilies moved. Nils, the gardener, talks to Jim about something that’s eating the corn. He wants to have breakfast in the kitchen, but Agnes won’t allow him in there with the servants and children. Jim and Ellen are at her mother’s country house for a vacation.
This is the first story in the preview of The World of Jeeves. Before Bertie leaves to help his fiancee he meets Jeeves and hires him on the spot. Bertie’s fiancée is concerned about a memoir that could prove scandalous, so she asks him to help her get rid of it. “Fat and Thin (Skinny)” is the second story in the Amazon preview of Fifty-Two Stories.īertie Wooster, an idle and upper-class man, tells the story of how he hired his butler, Jeeves, and his first acts in his service. They talk about their lives one bit of information changes the thin man’s view of his old friend. Two men-schoolmates as boys-meet unexpectedly at a train station and are delighted to see each other. Some of them have households with servants. The short stories on this page generally involve interaction between different social classes, or characters that have feelings of class distinction.
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