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Girl on the Boat, by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
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Title: The Girl on the Boat
Author: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Release Date: March 1, 2007 [EBook #20717]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE GIRL ON THE BOAT
BY
P. G. WODEHOUSE
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WHAT THIS STORY IS ABOUT
It was Sam Marlowe's fate to fall in love with a girl on the R.M.S. "Atlantic" (New York to Southampton) who had ideals. She was looking for a man just like Sir Galahad, and refused to be put off with any inferior substitute. A lucky accident on the first day of the voyage placed Sam for the moment in the Galahad class, but he could not stay the pace.
He follows Billie Bennett "around," scheming, blundering and hoping, so does the parrot faced young man Bream Mortimer, Sam's rival.
There is a somewhat hectic series of events at Windles, a country house in Hampshire, where Billie's ideals still blo