Loch Lomond

'Yes', I said, 'from now on, Jeeves will take the high road and I'll take the low road. He had the immortal rind to tell me that if I didn't give up my banjolele he would resign. I accepted his portfolio.'

Thank You, Jeeves. 2 Chuffy

While she had taken the high road and gone off to the second-class promenade deck, he had taken the low road that led to the dispensary somewhere down in the bowels of the ship.

The Luck of the Bodkins. Chapter 19

He, so to speak, was taking the high road while they, as it were, would take the low road.

Young Men in Spats. 5 Goodbye to All Cats

You tell a young man to stand on a lawn and sing the 'Bonny Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond', and the first thing you know he has forgotten the tune or gone speechless with stage fright.

[...] And he was turning away with a sigh, a beaten man, when from somewhere close at hand a voice in the night began to sing the 'Bonny Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond'. And scarcely had the haunting refrain ceased to annoy the birds roosting in the trees, when the French windows flew open and the Duke of Dunstable, shooting out like a projectile, went whizzing across the lawn, crying 'Hey!' as he did so.

[...] For his efforts to establish contact with the vocalist were being oddly frustrated. Instead of standing still and delivering his report, the other seemed to be receding into the distance. When the 'Bonny Banks' broke out again, it was from somewhere at the farther end of the lawn.

 Uncle Fred in the Springtime. Chapter 19

'We part, then, for the nonce, do we?'

'I fear so, sir.'

'You taking the high road, and self taking the low road, as it were?'

Joy in the Morning. Chapter 11

'Tell me about yourself, Phipps', she said, chatting as she mixed. 'Our paths parted after that trial. I, so to speak, took the high road, and you took the low road. Let us pick up the threads. What happened after you graduated from Sing Sing?'.

The Old Reliable. Chapter 10

The thought that from now on Miss Murphey would take the high road while he took the low road, and that neither on the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond nor elsewhere would they ever meet again, was a very stimulating one.

Something Fishy. Chapter 5

'I'll make it clear to the meanest intelligence.... That is.... Well, you know what I mean. Let me begin by asking you something. You're all steamed up about Shoesmith taking the high road and me the low road and our relations being severed and all that, but how would you like being a sort of glorified office-boy in a solicitor's firm?'

Ice in the Bedroom. Chapter 19

'[...] If ever there was a man who was all in favour of me taking the high road while he took the low road, it is this same Bassett. His idea of a happy day is one spent with at least a hundred miles between him and Bertram.'

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves. Chapter 3

From now on the woolly bear means nothing in his life. He will take the high road and it the low road, and if they happen to meet he will merely nod coldly, it that.

Plum Pie. Our Man in America 8th

Except at meals I hadn't seen anything of Florence till now, she, so to speak, having taken the high road while I took the low road.

Much Obliged, Jeeves. Chapter 12

'Exactly the idea which occured to me. And it ought not to be difficult. The chances of Pop Cook asking me to drop in are very slim. So if I take the high road and she takes the low road... [...]'

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen. Chapter 7