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Updated: June 21, 2025
He bred horses, he raced this, he backed that, he laid against the other; he was one of the greatest plungers, one of the biggest figures on the turf. He had been a kind of god to me a god in a grey frock-coat, with a grey top-hat and field-glasses slung over his shoulder; or in a hunting-suit of the most picturesque kind great pockets in a well-fitting coat, splendid striped waistcoat.
Pendyce came out first; he stared angrily at the dogcart, and moved to his own carriage. Lord Quarryman came out second. His massive sun-burned head the back of which, sparsely adorned by hairs, ran perfectly straight into his neck was crowned by a grey top-hat. The skirts of his grey coat were square-shaped, and so were the toes of his boots.
Just as she got to the sharp corner opposite the station, where all cars slowed down and her coal-merchant's office was situated, the train drew up. By the gates into the yard were standing the Major in his top-hat, the Captain in his Panama, Irene in a civilized skirt; Diva in a brand-new walking dress, and the Padre and wee wifey.
But it WAS undoubtedly young Lennan, brushed-up, in a top-hat. Fortunately, however, his face was not turned in their direction. He said nothing to Olive, not wishing especially after those unpleasant thoughts to take responsibility, and he kept her moving towards the gate, congratulating himself that his eyes had been so sharp.
"But why top-hat and frock-coat, Major?" he asked. "Another visit of the Prince of Wales, I asked myself, or the Voice that breathed o'er Eden? Have a drink one of mine, I mean? I owe you a drink for the good laugh you gave me."
'Look inside your hat if you doubt your own name. I then noticed for the first time that the name was plainly to be seen inside the top-hat Scribbings held upside down in his hands. 'You have heard, of course, of the Pegram mystery 'Tush, cried the detective; 'do not, I beg of you, call it a mystery. There is no such thing. Life would become more tolerable if there ever was a mystery.
He would have been abroad, I knew, for the ham and eggs that were forbidden him. Yet I stood aghast, for with the lounge-suit of tweeds I had selected the day before he had worn his top-hat! I am aware that these things I relate of him may not be credited. I can only put them down in all sincerity. I hastened to him and removed the thing from his head.
As to your practice, if a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession."
To lend the touch of humor, which always lurks behind other people's tragedies, he held his top-hat by the brim in his right hand, as though he were taking a collection, while from his left, like a feather-duster, trailed an enormous bunch of roses. He was a short man in the late thirties, red-headed and inclined to be podgy.
As his hansom debouched on to the Embankment, a man in top-hat and overcoat passed, walking quickly, so close to the wall that he seemed to be scraping it. 'By Jove! thought Jolyon; 'Soames himself! What's he up to now? And, stopping the cab round the corner, he got out and retraced his steps to where he could see the entrance to the mansions.
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