The coat doesn't quite fit across the shoulders." "You're a dandy, kid, a regular dandy," observed O'Hara, with humorous gravity.
After a few moments Archibald rushed off again, and Gabriella made an uncertain movement to follow him.

"I must go," she said, without rising, and added abruptly: "So you got on in spite of everything ?" "Right you are!" He leaned back in his chair and regarded her with benevolent optimism.

"You can always get on if the stuff is in you.

I meant to get on, and a steam engine couldn't have kept me back.

It's the gospel truth that I believe I came into the world meaning to get out of that cellar, and it was the same thing with areas and ash-bins.