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Updated: May 28, 2025
Horace, after great difficulty, wrote: DEAR X., "I am having a top-hole holiday in the caravan you gave the Avories. I am the Keeper of the Tin-opener. "Yours truly, Hester wrote: DEAR X., "I have long wanted to write to you and tell you that we adore the Slowcoach, which is the name we have given your caravan, and think you were awfully clever to think of it and to make it so complete.
Of course he could not stoop without a flash of vertigo; but on his feet he was top-hole. He was gaining every day. Luck. He might have come out of it with the blank mind of a newborn babe; and here he was, keen to resume his adventures. Luck. They had not stopped to see if he was actually dead. Some passer-by in the hall had probably alarmed them.
"It's a great game, Jack, if you don't weaken," he said. "But a fellow can't play it through on a uniform and a war record. I'm having a top-hole time, but it'll be different when I plant myself at a desk in some broker's office at a hundred and fifty a month. It's mixed pickles, for a fact. You can't buy your way into this sort of thing. And you can't stay in it without a bank roll."
"Dad," said he, after Mimi had gone through her self-ordained martyrdom and left the room. "I wonder whether you quite realise what a top-hole creature that Warburton girl is. She's perfectly astounding." "She is," Mr. Prohack admitted. "She's got ideas." "She has." "And she isn't afraid of carrying them out." "She is not." "She's much too good for you, dad." "She is."
Now I should have liked to tell the hatter that though my head was small I had strong reason to believe that the convolutions of my brain were quite top-hole. I did not do so and I only recall the incident now because it shows how we all get in the way of looking at life through our own particular peep-hole. Here is a man who sees all the world through the size of its hats.
A cup of coffee, I mean, or an egg or something? By jove! this really is top-hole." His homely, honest face glowed with pleasure, and it seemed to Sally as though she had come out of a winter's night into a warm friendly room. Her mercurial spirits soared. "Oh, Ginger! If you knew what it's like seeing you!" "No, really? Do you mean, honestly, you're braced?" "I should say I am braced."
"A shot of hooch!" observed his lordship "I dare say your shooting over here is absolutely top-hole keener sport than our popping at driven birds. What, what!" At a latish seven, when the Grill had become nicely filled with a representative crowd, the Belknap-Jacksons arrived with his lordship.
Hence the proximity of hostilities has left but little outward and visible sign upon the ancient town. The tradesmen have, it is true, made some concessions to our presence, and one remarks the inviting legends "Top-hole Tea" in the windows of a pâtisserie and "High life" over the shop of a tailor.
He was rather a deplorable thing in rotters, and quite hopelessly top-hole in the way of getting through money, but he had been more or less decent to the old lady in her unremembered days, and she wouldn't hear anything against him. At least, she wouldn't pay any attention to what she did hear, but her nieces took care that she should have to listen to a good deal in that line.
By the way, Wyndham, did I mention to you that Sharapura is the name of the place we are going to? It's quite an interesting corner of the Empire, and declared by medical experts to be a top-hole neighbourhood for studying malaria." "Is that a recommendation?" asked Max grimly. Nick's smile was geniality itself. "It is," he answered; "a very strong recommendation." He thrust out a friendly hand.
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