Mary Had a Little Lamb

Apparently having conceived for him one of those unreasoning, overwhelming devotions, this young Popjoy stuck closer than a brother; and for the first time Lord Emsworth began to appreciate what must have been the feelings of that Mary who aroused a similar attachment in the bosom of her lamb.

Blandings Castle. 4 Company for Gertrude

'It's unbelievable. Why, damn it, it's persecution. Fellow follows me everywhere, like Mary's lamb. Never a free moment. How did you catch him?'

The Code of the Woosters. Chapter 3

'[...] I do keep bobbing up, don't I? One realizes dimly how Mary must have felt.'

'Yes, I think you must have lamb blood in you. Delighted to see you, of course.'

Spring Fever. Chapter 7

'[...] Be always at Gertrude's side. Stick to her like glue. See that he doesn't get her alone in the rose garden. If a visit to the rose garden is mooted, include yourself in. You follow me, Bertie?'

'I follow you, yes', I said, a little dubiously. 'What you have in mind is something on the lines of Mary's lamb. I don't know if you happen to know the poem – I used to recite it as a child – but, broadly, the nub was that Mary had a little lamb with fleece as white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go. You want me to model my technique on that of Mary's lamb?'

The Mating Season. Chapter 2

My feelings, I suppose, were roughly what those of Mary would have been, had she looked over her shoulder one morning and found the lamb no longer among those present.

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. Chapter 8

'I said it wasn't as if he was Mary. Mary, as I remember, enjoyed the experience of being tailed up.'

'Bertie, you're tight.'

[...]

'Well, you seem all right', she said grudgingly. 'How do you mean he isn't Mary? Mary who?'

'I don't think she had a surname, had she? I was alluding to the child who had a little lamb with fleece as white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go.[...]'

Jeeves in the Offing. Chapter 6

'[...] I was the most impressive case of adhesiveness since Mary had a little lamb.'

[...]'Then that's exactly what you must do, Freddie. [...] Begin where Mary's lamb left off.'

'But you say she's more or less the Sheik's Dream of Paradise.'

'I'd certainly put her in the Top Ten.'

'Then I'm sorry. It can't be done. If Aggie learned that I had been Mary's-lambing with a girl of that description, I'd never hear the end of it. [...]'

Plum Pie. 9 Life with Freddie

'You must feel like Mary with her lamb, though I doubt if anyone attached to Scotland Yard has fleece as white as snow. [...]'

Sunset at Blandings. Chapter 6