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Title: Indiscretions of Archie

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Release Date: June 25, 2008 [EBook #3756]

Language: English

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INDISCRETIONS OF ARCHIE

By P. G. Wodehouse

It wasn't Archie's fault really. Its true he went to America and fell in
love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if
he did marry her--well, what else was there to do?

From his point of view, the whole thing was a thoroughly good egg; but
Mr. Brewster, his father-in-law, thought differently, Archie had
neither money nor occupation, which was distasteful in the eyes of the
industrious Mr. Brewster; but the real bar was the fact that he had once
adversely criticised one of his hotels.

Archie does his best to heal the breach; but, being something of an ass,
genus priceless, he finds it almost beyond his powers to placate "the
man-eating fish" whom Providence has given him as a father-in-law

P. G. Wodehouse

AUTHOR OF "THE LITTLE WARRIOR," "A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS," "UNEASY MONEY,"
ETC.

NEW YORK

GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

COPYRIGHT,1921, BY GEORGE H, DORAN COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY (COSMOPOLITAN
MAGAZINE)

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEDICATION TO B. W. KING-HALL

My dear Buddy,--

We have been friends for eighteen years. A considerable proportion of
my books were written under your hospitable roof. And yet I have never
dedicated one to you. What will be the verdict of Posterity on this? The
fact is, I have become rather superstitious about dedications. No sooner
do you label a book with the legend--

TO MY
BEST FRIEND
X

than X cuts you in Piccadilly, or you bring a lawsuit against him. There
is a fatality about it. However, I can't imagine anyone quarrelling
with you, and I am getting more attractive all the time, so let's take a
c