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Updated: September 29, 2025
But when he came on deck again, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, he was unaccompanied by the fog-horn. "Where the blamed thing's got to, I dunno, more'n the dead. I see it there, myself, not two days ago, but it ain't nowheres to be found now." "Rather orkard, Skipper, ain't it, in all this maze o' shippin'?" returned Mr. Topper with a half turn at the wheel.
Nobody can say that a top-hat was among the strange symbolic utensils dedicated to the obscure service of the Ark; nobody can suppose that a top-hat descended from heaven among the wings and wheels of the flying visions of the Prophets. For this wild vision the West is entirely responsible. Europe has created the Tower of Giotto; but it has also created the topper.
On the back of a plain visiting card were a few hasty words, scrawled in pencil: "So sorry but Eve is not feeling quite herself and begged me to take her home at once quietly. My respects and apologies to you and all your delightful guests." I read it out and passed it to Reggie. His face fell. "If that isn't a sell!" he exclaimed. "Fancy your knowing them! Isn't Miss Bundercombe a topper!"
The cop abandoned all other matters and followed, too. Soames needed to close his eyes to see what the Topper saw. He blinked them shut while he ran three paces. The Topper walked, now. He'd been joined by two friends. Soames heard his voice, he even felt the motions of his lips and tongue in speech.
Likewise at the game of How, When, and Where, she was very great, and to the secret joy of Scrooge's nephew, beat her sisters hollow: though they were sharp girls too, as Topper could have told you.
The young men, Somerfield especially, were inclined to regard the Prince's achievement from a somewhat critical standpoint. "He rode the race well enough," Somerfield admitted, "but the mare is a topper, and no mistake. He had nothing to do but to sit tight and let her do the work." "Of course, he hadn't to finish either," one of the newcomers, a Captain Everard Wilmot, remarked.
Dora had her skirt over her arm and carried the topper in her hand. It was no use to tell ourselves it was a wild boar hunt we were long past that. At last we met a man who took pity on us. He was a kind-hearted man. I think, perhaps, he had a pig of his own or, perhaps, children. Honour to his name! He stood in the middle of the road and waved his arms.
He put his white 'topper' down, and took her hand. "My dear," he said, "I don't want to intrude upon your feelings; but but is there anything I can do? It's dreadful to see things going unhappily with you!" He felt his hand being lifted, her face pressed against it; and, suffering acutely, with his other hand, cased in a bright new glove, he smoothed her arm.
After a while they played at forfeits; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. Stop! There was first a game at blind-man's buff. Of course there was. And I no more believe Topper was really blind than I believe he had eyes in his boots.
'Lord, don't we know it! said a sad-faced gentleman, in a rusty topper. 'This one's too intolerable, said a man to his companion. 'Yes; she ought to be smacked. They melted out of the crowd. 'We've got our tongues, and I've been going round among all the women I know getting them to promise to use their tongues 'You stand up there and tell us they needed urgin'?
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