The Psmith Omnibus. P. G. Wodehouse
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Название: The Psmith Omnibus

Автор: P. G. Wodehouse

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Юмористические стихи

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isbn: 9781456613990

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СКАЧАТЬ decreeing that a stout drainpipe should pass up the wall within a few inches of his and Psmith's study. On the first day of term, it may be remembered he had wrenched away the wooden bar which bisected the window frame, thus rendering exit and entrance almost as simple as they had been for Wyatt during Mike's first term at Wrykyn.

      He proceeded to scale this water pipe.

      He had got about halfway up when a voice from somewhere below cried, "Who's that?"

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      PURSUIT

      These things are Life's Little Difficulties. One can never tell precisely how one will act in a sudden emergency. The right thing for Mike to have done at this crisis was to have ignored the voice, carried on up the water pipe, and through the study window, and gone to bed. It was extremely unlikely that anybody could have recognized him at night against the dark background of the house. The position then would have been that somebody in Mr. Outwood's house had been seen breaking in after lights-out; but it would have been very difficult for the authorities to have narrowed the search down any further than that. There were thirty-four boys in Outwood's, of whom about fourteen were much the same size and build as Mike.

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