top-of-the-tree

Updated: June 25, 2025

"On the contrary," said Vernon, "Miss Voscoe is everybody almost!" "I'm the nobody who can't get a word in edgeways anyhow," she said. "What I've been trying to say ever since I was born pretty near is that what this class wants is a competent Professor, some bully top-of-the-tree artist, to come and pull our work all to pieces and wipe his boots on the bits. Mr.

E. (Edith) Nesbit - The Incomplete Amorist