Once again, a tail is used as an extra limb. Chives strangles a guy with his while resisting the attack on the Shkoptsina. (p. 562) Also, this time with a gun, he explodes one assassin's head and another's leg and holds a fourth guy in an elbow-lock as a shield while shooting yet others.
Earlier, when a Naval patrol attempted to arrest him, he considered that conformity would be imprudent but also tried not to inflict irreparable damage on men wearing his Majesty's uniform.
Still earlier, in "The Warriors from Nowhere," Chives had taken the liberty of disintegrating his grace, Duke Alfred of Tauria.
Given all this and the use of the word, "'...imbroglio...," (p. 556) we recognize Jeeves' speech patterns although not his attitude to physical violence.
Like Bruce Wayne's Alfred Pennyworth and the servants of Dornford Yates's characters, Chives gives satisfaction in more ways than one.
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Kaor, Paul!
and another example from literature, the mystery genre this time, would be Mr. Bunter, one of the characters created by Dorothy L. Sayers' for her Lord Peter Wimseny stories. Bunter, an invaluable butler and valet of Lord Peter, had been a sergeant seeing front line service in the British Army during WW I. So he would be thoroughly acquainted with weapons and know how o use them in cases of need.
I also recall Erannath, from THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN. Once, to prevent Ivar Frederiksen from being prematurely arrested by Imperial Marines, he took care to do as little harm as possible to those Marines.
Ad astra! Sean
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