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Barradine that did the trick for me;" and with enthusiasm he narrated the gloriously opportune arrival of "the friend at court." Indeed his enthusiasm was so great that he could not keep still while speaking. He got off the bed, and walked about the room, brandishing his arms. "He's just a tip-topper. If you could have been there to hear him, you wouldn't 'a' left off crying yet.
Bob grinned with satisfaction when Max, expressing his gratification, dropped into his hand a half-sovereign. "Thought you'd be pleased, sir," said he, as he helped to get Dudley into the carriage. "I said it was for a toff, a reg'lar tip-topper; and so it was, s' help me!" Dudley, who was very lame, and who had to be more than half carried, looked out of the window.
Through the wind-hushed spaces of the canvas, where the foretopmaststay-sail " "I know that foretopmaststay-sail," said the funny man, suddenly. I withered him with a look, and turned over the page. "Here," I said, "is another tip-topper. What do you think of this for a storm? 'The liquid acclivities were rising taller, and more threatening.
There was no denying the fact that Mrs. Odell-Carney was a "regular tip-topper," as Mr. Rodney was only too eager to say. She had the air of a born leader; that is to say, she could be gracious when occasion demanded, without being patronising. In due course of time the Medcrofts and Miss Fowler were presented to the distinguished couple.
You can't beat American weather, when it chooses, in no part of the world I've ever been in yet. This day is a tip-topper, and it's the last we'll see of the kind till we get back agin, I know. Take a fool's advice, for once, and stick to it, as long as there is any of it left, for you'll see the difference when you get to England.
"I used always to hear him called a great man at Miss Hendy's," replied Snipe; "no end of money, and a reg'lar tip-topper. I really expected to see the queen very often drop in to supper." "And meet all the tag-rag we have here! What would the queen care for all them portrait-painters, and poets, and engineers, and writing vagabonds, as old Pits is eternally feeding?
It's a easy job as ever I see. Seems to me Tuesday's as good a day as any. Tip-topper Sir Edward Talbot, that's 'im 'e's in furrin parts for 'is 'ealth, 'e is. Comes 'ome end o' next month. Little surprise for 'im, eh? You'll 'ave to train it. Abrams 'e'll be there Monday. And see 'ere . . ." He sank his voice to a whisper. When Dickie came back, without mushrooms, the red-whiskered man was gone.
"Are you really such a very important personage?" I rejoined, laughing at his affected air "as big a man as the captain?" "Aye, for after another voyage I'll be made third mate too, like Matthews, and then second, and then first; and after that a captain like our old friend `sayings and meanings' here, only a regular tip-topper, unlike him."
But it's easy to see that you're a nob a navy man, a regular brass-bounder, if I'm not mistaken and as such you can well afford it; while, as for the lady, anybody with half an eye can see that she's a regular tip-topper, thoroughbred, and all that, so she can afford it too; while I'm a poor man, and am likely to be to the end of my days." "Quite so," assented Leslie.
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