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"Stiffish lot, those Americans," he said at last. "They do so many things one doesn't do," I answered. "And their brogue is not what one could call top-hole, is it now? How often they say 'I guess! I fancy they must say it a score of times in a half-hour." "I fancy they do, sir," I agreed. "I fancy that Johnny with the eyebrows will say it even oftener." "I fancy so, sir.
"It's from my brother," said Mrs. MacDermott, "but what on earth does it mean? You're here all right, aren't you?" "Yes," he said, "I'm here." He laid a good deal of emphasis on the "I." Mrs. MacDermott looked at him with sudden suspicion. "I've had a top-hole time," he said. "What an utterly incompetent rotter Connell is! He had nothing on earth to do but lie low.
Rhoda took their battered hats, led the women upstairs for hairpins, and presently fed them all with tea-cakes, poached eggs, anchovy toast, and drinks from a coromandel-wood liqueur case which Midmore had never known that he possessed. 'And I will say, said Miss Connie Sperrit, her spurred foot on the fender and a smoking muffin in her whip hand, 'Rhoda does one top-hole.
"I I wasn't feeling top-hole," he murmured lamely, wondering why girls always wanted to go back and stir up dogs that had gone comfortably to sleep. "Did it come on suddenly?" said Jinny, unsympathetically, her eyes still upon the pyramids. Something whimsical twitched at Jack Ryder's lips. "Very suddenly. Like thunder, out of China crost the bay."
He couldn't take a note of any kind, of course, but he seems to have a wonderful memory. He was able to give us the names of almost every unit of troops he came across." He stopped to skirt a tram, then added suddenly: "Do you know him well, Okewood?" "Yes, I think I do," said Desmond. "I lived with him for about three months in France, and we got on top-hole together.
Then a tall, lean figure in uniform, who had remained in the background by the fireplace, advanced with outstretched hand. "Hello, old chap!" Doggie took the hand in an honest grip. "Hello, Oliver!" "How goes it?" "Splendid," said Doggie. "You all right?" "Top-hole," said Oliver. He clapped his cousin on the shoulder. "My hat! you do look fit." He turned to the Dean.
I looked round for something with which to slay him. "I wonder," he said thoughtfully, "if I shall ever find my tennis legs again." "Have you lost them?" I asked sarcastically. "I'm afraid so er that is, of course, only one of them really." "Only one of them?" I repeated vaguely. "Yes, Fritzie got it at Jutland; but these new mark gadgets are top-hole.
Just now Fran said 'poke fun' when she meant 'criticise, and Roger says a thing is 'fine and dandy' when I should call it 'top-hole. That is the difference, is it not?" The others laughed and Edith's attempt to bridge a dangerous situation ended successfully. Presently their whereabouts absorbed their attention for Win had left the map behind him on the library table.
"It's a top-hole farm, and after the next move we'll bring Headquarters waggon line up here.... The colonel says you can have his second charger now that you've lost 'Tommy. He's taking on Major Veasey's mare, the one with the cold back that bucks a bit. She's a nice creature if she's given plenty of work." "How is the colonel?" I asked. "Oh, he's in great form; says the war may end any minute.
"My word, old chap, that is top-hole tennis," said the Englishman, warmly congratulating him. "Luck, old boy, brilliant luck!" said Captain Jack. "Couldn't do it again for a bet." "You must do it just once more," said Frances, coming to meet the players. "Oh, you dear old thing. Come and be refreshed. Here is the longest, coolest thing in drinks this Club affords.
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