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To London we must take it, for this reason the closure of this case is no jeweler's work; of that I have quite convinced myself. It is the work of a first-rate lapidary, and the same sort of man must undo it." To this I agreed quite readily, because of such things I knew nothing; whereas my host spoke just as if he had been brought up to both those walks of art.
"You did that admirably, my dear Vargrave!" said Lord Raby, when they were seated in the carriage. Your hit upon was first-rate, he will not get over it for a month; and you extricated yourself well." "I am glad you approve my conduct, it comforts me," said Vargrave, feelingly; "at the same time I see all the consequences; but I can brave all for the sake of character and conscience."
Windus Carr, a prosperous West-end solicitor, who had inherited a first-rate practice from his father, and who devoted his talents to the enjoyment of life, leaving his clients to the care of his partner, a steady-going stout gentleman, with a bald head, and an inexhaustible capacity for business; and last, but by no means least, John Saltram, who possessed more influence over David Forster than any one else in the world.
Some had spring skates, which were very quickly put on, the spring, which was between the sole of the boot and the sole of the skate, keeping all the straps tight, at the same time without any undue pressure. John Bracebridge was celebrated as a first-rate skater. His skates were secured to a pair of ankle boots, which fitted him exactly, and laced up in front. He put them on at the pond.
"Thank you, they'd like 'em first-rate," she said, speaking low so as not to wake the baby. "Mamie, Ellen, Jamie, Fred, George say thank you, and don't grab." Sunny Boy stayed a little while, talking to them all, and they told him they were going to another state far away. They would be all night on the train.
On the whole, therefore, the American schooner was as welcome as if she had been a first-rate man-of-war filled with reinforcements from England. The wounded being now sent off, and Colonel Wood among the number, the remainder of the fleet again set sail, and reached the mouth of the bay without interruption.
"No, sorr," replied Mr McCarthy, "Adams is a first-rate seaman and a good officer too! He would be the last man to join a mutiny. Something must have happened to him, I'm thinking." "I wonder, too," said Mr Meldrum, "that my daughter Kate has not come up before from the saloon!
"If the natives had been on board, they are such first-rate swimmers that some of them would have managed to reach the land." We looked about in every direction, but could discover no boats on the beach nor any sign of a living man.
"So when Pengarvan came to me as a boy, on the quay here, and asked me to take him with me to sea, I did not much like doing so; for I saw at once, by his speech, that he was Cornish; but I did not like to turn him away, for he said that he was willing, and accustomed to the sea. So I gave him a trial, and he has turned out a first-rate sailor.
It is, indeed, possible that the portable picture or image may be first-rate of its kind, but it is not first-rate because it is portable; nor are Titian's frescoes less than first-rate because they are fixed; nay, very frequently the highest compliment you can pay to a cabinet picture is to say "It is as grand as a fresco."
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