Aubrey Upjohn in the literary flesh
I'm into the thick of the 4th of the Jeeves Omnibus and beginning Jeeves in the Offing, I realise that we're finally being introduced to Aubrey Upjohn of whose educational establishment, there have been umpteen references by Bertie W.. The name crops up usually as a nostalgic precursor to Bertie creeping up into someone's room to pinch something, for the story of how he crept in the passage to the office of that formidable man's study at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea to sneak some biscuits when to his eternal horror, it was occupied by the man himself tucking into them with gusto.More dirt is revealed about the man who doled out "six of the juciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder" such as the fact that he had a bare, wide upper lip that twitched scarily and that he couldn't make his speeches without referring to his notes instead of memorising them, a crime in Wooster-world.
Can't wait for him to get in the neck thanks to Jeeves :-)
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