Chives asks to be excused so that he may prepare supper. Flandry demurs.
"'Sir?' Chives raised the eyebrows he didn't have."
-Poul Anderson, "Hunters of the Sky Cave" IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 149-301 AT XVI, p. 274.
Flandry explains that he and Chives are needed on the bridge and that a CPO will cook.
"'Sir!' bleated Chives."
-ibid.
Jeeves could not have said it better. (I believe that, somewhere in the Wooster cannon, Jeeves, temporarily crushed and deflated, trickles into a room.)
Meanwhile, our heroes speed towards the battle depicted on this cover.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Ha! I recently reread HUNTERS OF THE SKY CAVE and I well recall Chives pained distress at how he and Flandry would have to eat, for a while, rough Navy cuisine!"
And you certainly seem to be a fan of P.D. Wodehouse's Jeeves/Wooster stories!
Sean
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