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He's smart and he'll climb pretty high, I cal'late. Our little single-sticked bankin' craft ain't goin' to be big enough for him to sail in very long. I can see that already. He'll be navigatin' a clipper one of these days. Well, that's the way I'd want it. I'm pretty ambitious for that girl of mine and I shouldn't be satisfied short of a top-notcher.
"Who's this Somers?" I asked him, rather abruptly. "Is he all right?" "You bet," said Steele, smiling. "He's a top-notcher." "In what respects?" "Every and all." "You've known him long?" "Yes. I tell you Cal, he's all right. Forget it. What's the surprise for supper? Do you know?" "Of course not. It wouldn't be a surprise if we all knew of it." "Well, Vicky's surprises are always great fun.
It's jus' in the breed, that's what it is; ye take to it as natural as ducks " Mike had a habit of springing half-finished sentences on his friends. "Yer father could roide afore ye; none better, an' Miss Allis can sit a horse foiner nor any b'y as isn't a top-notcher. But this beats me, t'umbs up, if it doesn't.
You said something else: you called him a second best. That's all he is, however you take him, whether as a husband, a father or a lover. He lacks earnestness; he has always lacked it. I've been his friend for years; his flabbiness sticks out all over him. But you're not a second best, Mrs. Lockwood. You're a top-notcher too fine for anything but the best. You really are.
The captain had taken a fancy to the narrator and was not averse to beginning his investigation as to the Holiday family with the young corporal himself. Accordingly he tackled the boy's commanding officer, a young colonel with whom he chanced to be dining. The colonel was willing to talk and Geoffrey Annersley discovered that young Holiday was rather by way of being a top-notcher.
You might ha' done well in the ring if you'd been blessed wi' poverty an' I'd 'ad the 'andling of ye a world's unbeat champion, like Joe. A good fighter were I an' a wonnerful trainer! Ho, yus, I might ha' made a top-notcher of ye if you 'adn't been cursed wi' money."
"You thought you ran the whole place and did everything yourself, so I thought I'd just show you how things look when I run them." "You are a top-notcher," said Kate. "Figuratively and literally, I offer you the palm. Let the good work go on! I highly approve; but I don't see how you found time to do all this and go to Institute." "I didn't go to Institute," said Nancy Ellen. "You didn't!
A B. A measly B. Made me so sore I darn near told 'em who wrote it!" "Jimsy! You wrote it yourself, really. I just smoothed it up a little." "Yep, just a little! Well, either they're wise, or they just figured it couldn't be a top-notcher if I'd written it!" He cast himself on the couch. "Gee, Skipper, I can't work to-night! I'm a dying man! That dinner Carter bought me last night " "Jimsy!
"But Black Pedro was the very top-notcher of them all, the finest flower of piracy. He didn't go pirating just during the summer months, when his other business was slack. And he would have died before he'd have been a wrecker. It was a profession, with him. And an inherited one, too. He was the third of the name.
How's that top-notcher swell Bremner comin' on?" He turned to me. "Let's fill him up, too." They came over to me, but I pretended still to be unconscious. My head was limply bent over my chest. They jerked it up by my forelock and looked into my face.
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