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"I would rather not, thanks," Douglas said. "I'll give you the money for one." She looked at him angrily. "Too much of a toff, eh? No, you can keep your money. You'll come along and have one with me, or I'll tell the bobby." Douglas hesitated.
"Lor love yer! that's the wery reason we're a-pressin' of your worship," replied the grinning minions of the service. "We've such a set of black-guards aboard the tender yonder, we wants a toff like you to learn 'em manners." The quixotic idea of inculcating manners by means of the press infected others besides the gangsman.
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.
Lord love a duck! what a soakin' he gev' me in Brighton. Some lah-di-dah toff swaggered into the garage that evenin', and handed Dale a fiver five golden quidlets, if you please which my nibs had won on a horse at Epsom. I must say, though, Dale did the thing handsome quart bottles o' Bass opened every ten minutes. Thank you, my dear" this to the waitress, "next to beer give me tea.
Youth will be served this saying flashed into King's mind, and he remembered the first time he had heard it, the night when he had put away Stowsher Bill. The toff who had bought him a drink after the fight and patted him on the shoulder had used those words. Youth will be served! The toff was right. And on that night in the long ago he had been Youth. To-night Youth sat in the opposite corner.
That rude American man, who talked with her this morning, may be the person who has brought this misfortune on us." Amelius waited to hear no more. There was the chance, at least, that something might have been said which had induced her to take refuge with Rufus. He ran back to the library to get his hat. Toff followed his master, with another suggestion. "One word more, sir, before you go.
In her early married days she had felt herself to be snubbed as being merely the Dean's daughter. Her present troubles brought a certain balm with them. No one snubbed her now. If she had a mind for arrowroot, Mrs. Toff would make it herself and suggest a thimbleful of brandy in it with her most coaxing words.
The Chap from the Top Floor was there, and Mrs. Dusty Morgan, and little Mrs. Love from Tann Street, and Mrs. 'Ero Edwards's daughter, Queenie, and several people's children. Conversation never wavered as Jay knocked and came in. When you find that your entrance no longer fills a Brown Borough room with sudden silence, you may be glad and know that you have ceased to be a lidy or a toff.
Jim did not know that the slim man with the royal eye must endure acute agony as he travels from one squalid vessel to another; he did not know that the sublime modern Reformer has overcome colossal difficulties while enduring tortures which would make even brave men pray for death. Jim was in the dark. He only knew that the saintly man talked like a "toff," and said strange things.
"'Ere's a swell toff to chawf a lidy! 'Owever," reflectively, "I'ave 'eard 'e could 'it 'ard!" "But that," said the gentleman, indicating the tankard, "could hit harder." "My hyes; wot's the name of yer missionary friend, ragbags?" to Joe. "The gentleman's a lawyer, and when I tell you his name is " John Steele reached over and stopped the speaker; the woman laughed.
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