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I did the job right well, though, if I do say it, and I ha'n't charged very steep for it, neither. Couldn't do it, somehow! went too much against the grain. And well, can't you shake hands over it? You're a tip-top paymaster, and if you want anything done, I'll come and do it, if I'm in China there! Don't you lay out another cent on this settlement, though, 'tain't worth it."
John Jr. also caught a glimpse of the retreating figure, and started in pursuit, in the course of his search passing the kitchen, where he was instantly hailed by Aunt Milly, who, while bemoaning her own aches and pains, did not fail to tell him how "Miss 'Lena, like aborned angel dropped right out of 'tarnity, had been in thar, burning her skin to a fiery red, a-tryin' to get up a tip-top dinner."
Suddenly an irresistible impulse seized me to rush upon her, to dash syringe, tabloids, glass, and all, from her hands. I must have obeyed it I was on the tip-top point of obeying my body already leant prone: but at that instant a voice at the opened door behind me said: 'Well, how is everything? It was Wilson, the electrician, who stood there.
I am afraid, however, many a smart yachtsman would have been scandalized at our decks, lumbered up with hen-coops, sacks of coal, and other necessaries, which, like the Queen of Spain's legs, not only ought never to be seen, but must not be supposed even to exist, on board a tip-top craft. By the evening, the gale, which had been blowing all day, had increased to a perfect hurricane.
I've been studying abroad for a long time. Thinking of taking a place as French teacher in some tip-top high school. 'I am very glad to hear it. Capital idea. Sure I hope you'll be successful. 'Thanks awf'ly. Tell me something about yourself. Why, it's two years since we saw each other, isn't it? Are you married yet? Horace smiled and coloured. 'No, no not yet.
I understand it is a theory among managers that if a play is unspeakably bad they can hire some one else to rewrite it from beginning to end, and make a success of it. Adversely, if it should happen to be a good play, they don't know what it's all about and will have nothing to do with it." "I'm sure your play will be a dandy," said Mr. Bingle warmly. "The plot is tip-top.
Bludyer," said the tailor, delighted that his protegee should be thus winning all hearts: "isn't Mrs. Walker a tip-top singer, eh, sir?" "I think she's a very bad one, Mr. Woolsey," said the illustrious author, wishing to abbreviate all communications with a tailor to whom he owed forty pounds. "Then, sir," says Mr. Woolsey, fiercely, "I'll I'll thank you to pay me my little bill!"
"You may look at these goods, but you must not buy anything." "Lor' missus, why?" asked little Pitapat. "Because I want you to lay out all your money with my friend Mr. Crash at Tip-Top." "But after de good gemman has had de trouble?" said Pitapat. "He shall have his supper and a mug of ale and go on his journey," said Mrs. Condiment.
There, early in winter mornings, more than a hundred stalls are to be found, full of blood cattle, in tip-top condition, and on summer afternoons no barracks of a cavalry regiment changing quarters are more busy.
This is a tip-top room; I slept here the night I came, and that bed was just splendid after bare ground for a fortnight." "I'll stop, and as I'm pretty well done up, I guess we may as well turn in now," answered the new guest; then, as if the memory of that homeless little lad so kindly cherished made his heart overflow in spite of him, Mr.
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