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The Adventures of Sally

by Wodehouse Pelham Grenville

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Author: Wodehouse Pelham Grenville

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Until she inherited 25 thousand dollars, Sally’s life used to be quite simple – a huge inheritance makes everything much more complicated, even the relations with one she loves and trusts most. A young unsophisticated heroine of Wodehouse's novel “The Adventures of Sally” has to put her life back together. Here Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, an English writer of the 20th century, relates, with wit and charm, of disasters and adversity money can bring along.

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...up in theshow. Cracknell--you remember he was at college with me--suggested thatI should come down and look at it. Shouldn't wonder if he wants me toput money into it and so on. ""I thought he had all the money in the world. ""Yes, he has a lot, but these fellows like to let a pal in on a goodthing. ""Is it a good thing?""The play's fine. ""That's what Mr. Faucitt said. But Mabel Hobson... "Fillmore's ample face registered emotion. "She's an awful woman, Sally! She can't act, and she throws herweight about all the time. The other day there was a fuss about apaper-knife... ""How do you mean, a fuss about a paper-knife?""One of the props, you know. It got mislaid. I'm certain it wasn't myfault... ""How could it have been your fault?" asked Sally wonderingly. Loveseemed to have the worst effects on Fillmore's mentality. "Well--er--you know how it is. Angry woman... Blames the first personshe sees... This paper-knife... "Fillmore's voice trailed off into pained silence. "Mr. Faucitt said...