I love the Kipling comparison.
I know I mentioned Wodehouse at one point and the prose to me frequently has that feel to it. I don't have a direct comparison as
Bookpossum does, but here's an example that I think could have come straight from Wodehouse's pen (he was a published writer at the time although not nearly the polished writer he was to become):
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It is true that my master's character is based on so firm an inborn bedrock of cold reserve and obstinacy that he is, by nature, one of this world's wet blankets.
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For me, the big pleasure of this book is the wordplay and wit.