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We don't want no toffs 'ere." This was followed by more definite applause from the group immediately surrounding the speaker. Mr. Wigglesworth was much affronted and proceeded to administer a rebuke to the interrupter. "Mr. Chairman," said the owner of the Cockney voice, rising to his feet and revealing himself a small man with large head and thin wizened features, "Mr.
There were crooks whose faces shone with the evil excitement of alcohol, out-of-works of all kinds, beggars, and young men all young men with sleek oiled hair and shiny boots, in whose eyes and demeanour theft and crime could be seen. By a curious coincidence the great news seemed to have reached all, toffs and crooks alike, at exactly the same time.
Well, I've mixed a good deal with the toffs in my time, and I've seen duchesses dressed more showily and maybe more expensively, but her clothes seemed to be just a framework to show her up. She was a beauty, you can take it from me; and it's not to be wondered that the La-De-Das were round her when they did see her, like flies round an open jam tart.
"A toff" was her secret comment upon the engineer; and from her limited experience she had been led to understand that it was not good form among "toffs" to shake hands. Corliss fumbled his hand, then bowed, and looked at her curiously.
Carson and I were only fighting he's going pretty soon. We knew each other at art school in Berkeley. Now he knows all the toffs in London." "Mr. Wrenn," said the best little poet, "I hope you'll back up my contention. Izzy says th " "Carson, I have told you just about enough times that I do not intend to stand for `Izzy' any more!
Mebbee you ain't used to the ways of sailormen just yet, but you can lay to it that those two are reel concessions, savvy? I ain't a mush-head, like mee dear friend Jim. You ain't no water-front swine, I can guess that with one hand tied beehind me. You're a toff, that's what you are, and your lines has been laid for toffs.
We're buried, when our time comes, and then they're werry kind to us, the parish toffs is: It's in a lump six at a time as they buries us, and sich nice deal coffins they makes us, the parish toffs does, an' sich nice lamp-black they paints 'em with to make 'em look as if they was covered over with the best black velvid; an' then sich a nice sarmint none o' your retail sarmints, but a hulsale sarmint they reads over the lot, an' into one hole they packs us one atop o' the other, jest like a pile o' the werry best Yarmith bloaters, an' that's a good deal more sociable an' comfable, the parish toffs thinks, than puttin' us in single; so it is, for the matter o' that.
"I've come across a few as might, if it 'adn't been for 'er. It's like the toffs as come out our way. They've been brought up on 'ris de veau a la financier, and sich like, and it just spoils 'em for the bacon and greens." I give her the office the next time I see her, and they met accidental like in Kensington Gardens early one morning.
"I'm saying," he repeated, "that I'm only a plain man of business, and you and your friend are what you'd call swells." "God forbid that I should!" the Count interjected fervently. "'Toffs, possibly but no matter, please continue." "Well, now, so long as his lordship likes to treat me and my family as kind of belonging to a different sphere, I'm well enough content.
They were the proud young birds of paradise whom toffs like those Guards came to see, and it was fun to see them pluming and preening themselves at the back, each for the eyes of her own particular lord in the stalls. Thus she flung out unfamiliar notes, hardly knowing their purport, but to John they were as slimy creatures out of the social mire she had struggled through. O London! London!
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