Jeeves and Wooster 1x5

Will Anatole Return to Brinkley Court?
(or, the Matchmaker)

Season 1, Episode 5

& Wooster: Morning, Jeeves. I'm just making some tea.
    Jeeves: Really, sir? Perhaps I could...
    Wooster: No, I may as well do it now. I've got quite used to looking after myself. It's surprising how much one can assimilate in a day. Mmm. Now, Jeeves, it says here it's best to use soft water, but after boiling, it may again become hard. That's ice, isn't it? And it says here, that's right, "One teaspoon per person and one for the pot." Why does the pot get one?


& Jeeves: We have a duty to look after our ladies and gentlemen, Monsieur Anatole.
    Anatole: Look after? Am I the nursie? Am l the the nursie for the kiddies? No, this is not kiddies. No, no, no, no, no. Kiddies is nice. Kiddies is not stopping with eats. Kiddies is not saying to us chap*, "Puff, we not like you no more. We not eat your combustibles*."
    Jeeves: Since time immemorial*, Monsieur Anatole, it has fallen to the Gallic races to bring civilization to the rude northerly provinces of their empire.
    Anatole: Mmm. It's true. Anatole is civilian. Anatole is nice.
    Jeeves: It hasn't always been easy. Sometimes it has seemed impossible, but...


& Jeeves: I look forward to it with lively anticipation*, sir.


& Wooster: A poop*, Jeeves. And a poop who drinks nothing stronger than orange juice.
    Jeeves: I was not aware of that*, sir.
    Wooster: Oh, yes. I've had it from his own lips. Whether from some hereditary* taint*, or he promised his mother he wouldn't, Gussie Fink-Nottle's never pushed so much as a gin and tonic over the larynx*. And he expects, this poop expects, Jeeves, under these conditions, to propose marriage to the girl he loves. I mean... one hardly knows whether to smile or weep, what?
    Jeeves: You consider total abstinence to be a handicap in a gentleman wishing to make a proposal of marriage?
    Wooster: Dash it*, Jeeves. Use your intelligence. Were it not for the grape and the grain, weddings would be a thing of the past. Proposals but a dim memory. Without it, Jeeves, we'd babble*.

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& Wooster: This must be an eye-opener for you, watch me handling this case.
    Jeeves: Luckily, sir, I found an opportunity to add half a bottle of spirits to his luncheon orange juice.
    Wooster: Oh, Jeeves... So did I, Jeeves.


& Jeeves: Gentlemen who are discounted by one young lady are apt to attach themselves without delay to another, sir. It is what is known as a gesture. My Uncle George...
    Wooster: Never mind your Uncle George.
    Jeeves: No, sir.
    Wooster: Save him for the long winter evenings.
    Jeeves: Just as you say.


& Wooster: And what about Miss Bassett? Do I still have to marry her?
    Jeeves: No, sir. Miss Bassett is once more safely affianced to Mr Fink-Nottle.
    Wooster: Phew! Well, praise be, Jeeves.
    Jeeves: Indeed, sir.
    Wooster: Although, forgive me for saying so, your methods are a little on the rough side.
    Jeeves: Well, sir, one cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs.
    Wooster: I say, an omelette. Erm... Do you think you could get me one?
    Jeeves: Certainly, sir.
    Wooster: Perhaps with a little half bot of something.
    Jeeves: Undoubtedly, sir.



-- Dict:
chap — парень; малый
combustibles — горячее
immemorial — незапамятный; древний
with lively anticipation — c живейшим нетерпением
poop — дурачок; бесхарактерный человек; простофиля
I was not aware of that — Я не знал об этом
hereditary — наследственный
taint — позор; болезнь в скрытом состоянии
larynx — гортань; горло; глотка
Dash it — К черту
babble — лепет; бормотание


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