Information AboutSebastian Beach |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT SEBASTIAN BEACH | |
| p. g. wodehouse characters | |
| beach, sebastian | |
| fictional butlers | |
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Like all of Wodehouse's male domestic servants, Beach is always known by his surname. He appears in twelve books, in which he resigns once after shooting Rupert Baxter with an air-gun. However, Emsworth cannot do without his butler, and after the Baxter incident, he assures his faithful servant of continued employment and, after a moment's reflexion and gnawing self-doubt as to his own prowess with an air-gun, himself shoots Baxter again. Beach also threatens to give notice on another occasion because of Lord Emsworth's beard, an admittedly dubious fixture which Beach fears will ruin Emsworth's respectability in the community. Since he cannot honorably criticise his employer while serving as a butler, Beach makes the painful decision to resign first. Beach is a heavyset man whose favorite pastime is drinking Port in the Pantry , though he occasionally switches to Brandy during crises. Although somewhat more emotional than Wodehouse's other famous domestic servant, Jeeves, Beach nevertheless generally limits himself to a slightly-raised eyebrow when strongly moved. Beach's niece Maudie Beach Montrose Stubbs Digby, her last three surnames left over from previous marriages, marries Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe (Lord Emsworth's chief rival at the Shrewsbury Agricultural Show) and becomes Lady Parsloe, causing Sir Gregory deep embarrassment when he must address Beach as "Uncle Sebastian". |
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