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Disclaimer: I didn't write and don't own the characters of Jeeves and Bertie, and I'm making
no money out of this.
He enjoys being a valet. He still checks up on himself, and checks himself, on occasion, in small ways. He keeps creating lines and parameters in which Reginald Jeeves must move, and which he must not move outside, and regulates even the thrill it gives him to fold Mr Wooster's towels, the beating of his heart when straightening Mr Wooster's tie. Sometime he wonders if he could erase this persona as efficiently as the others, and if, if he did, he would still be in love with Mr Wooster. He thinks about many things, thoughtlines and causal links leading to twelve, fifteen different resolutions. But no. He enjoys being a valet. He enjoys making Mr Wooster's breakfast, of playing with Mr Wooster's life, of watching that grateful look blossom in his proud, innocent, unspoiled eyes. The eyes of an Old Etonian, a life Reginald Jeeves has hardly ever worn. (Sometimes he thinks about why that is.) Sometimes Mr Wooster reminds him of the letters from his father, which his mother kept in a jar on the top shelf in the kitchen, and he thinks about how this might be one of the reasons for his fascination. His father had been an innocent man, innocently in love with the kitchen maid, long before such modern matches were ever possible. His father had died young. Perhaps this explains another thing or two, also. He even regulates his dreams at night, so it's hardly ever, now, that they tell him the truth.
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