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"I would not stickle about hours, but the money and the drink are very just." "If Hell-house yard is astir," said Waghorn, "there will be a good deal to be seen yet." "It's grave," said Master Nixon. "What think you of a deputation there? It might come to good." "I should like to hear the top-sawyer from London," said Juggins.
'But, said I, still more confused, "The King is the top-sawyer," according to our proverb. How then can the Whigs be? 'Thou art a hopeless ass, John. Better to sew with a chestnut than to teach thee the constitution. Let it be so, let it be. I have seen a boy of five years old more apt at politics than thou. Nay, look not offended, lad. It is my fault for being over-deep to thee.
"Ah! and what might you have been doing in the hedge now?" "Think'n', m'lud." "And what were you thinking?" "I were think'n', m'lud, as the tall genelman here is a top-sawyer wi' 'is daddies, m'lud. I was." "Aha! so you've been watching, eh?" "Not watchin' oh no, m'lud; I just 'appened ter notice that's all, m'lud."
"But," said I, still more confused, "'The King is the top-sawyer, according to our proverb. How then can the Whigs be?" "Thou art a hopeless ass, John. Better to sew with a chestnut than to teach thee the constitution. Let it be so, let it be. I have seen a boy of five years old more apt at politics than thou. Nay, look not offended, lad. It is my fault for being over-deep to thee.
Why, you are the man on the spot, holding a commission from the Granthi Durbar, and obviously the proper person to punish its rebellious vassal. I am merely accompanying the troops of a friendly state as a matter of curiosity." "My dear Hal, it's no end good of you, but I am perfectly content. You have always been top-sawyer, you know."
"Faix, I think," says his Riv'rence, "wid all submission to the better judgment ov the learned father that your Holiness has quoted, he'd have been a thrifle nearer the thruth, if he had said that the bishop ov Rome is the grand imposther and top-sawyer in that line over us all." "What do you mane?" says the Pope, getting quite red in the face.
This day happened to be one in which the top-sawyer had been graciously pleased to toss his arms up and down over the pit not of destruction, but of preservation.
"That's true, no doubt, sir. But still, if you'll think of it, old women does have feelings. Not as a young one, but still they're there." "Who's going to hurt your feelings?" "In this house, sir, for the last fifteen years I've been top-sawyer of the female gender." "Then I'm not to marry at all." "You've gone on and you haven't, that's all. I ain't a-finding no fault.
"I won't praise the doctor's wisdom till I hear what sort of bargain he's made," said the top-sawyer. "'Tis only an old woman's tale," said Bawtree. "But it seems that he wanted certain books on some mysterious science or black-art, and in order that the people hereabout should not know anything about his dark readings, he ordered 'em direct from London, and not from the Sherton book-seller.
You needn't go for to really humble yourself afore that Macdougall; I only meant you to purtend like as how you thinks him a regular top-sawyer, and then you'll sail along without a chance of a squall Mr Ohlsen, the second mate, in charge o' your watch, is an easy-going chap, and you'll get on well enough with him."
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