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"Hell!" exclaimed Zabriskie he was the youngest member of the firm, a son of James' oldest sister. "Tell me how, and I'll do it." "You're there you know what to do," pleaded James. "And I order you to get that price down!" "Don't keep me here, talking rot. I've been fighting and I'm going to keep on." James shivered. Fighting!
"No," said Castellan, "and I've seen better; but look you, there's the sky clearing to the east; yes, and there's Venus, herald of the sun: and faith, she's bright, too, like a little moon, now isn't she? I suppose it'll be a bit too early for Norah to be looking at her, won't it?" "Don't talk rot, man," replied the Lieutenant-Commander.
Of course we would always want clever chaps like you to tell us stories; and doctors we couldn't do without, though I guess if we were leading sensible lives we'd be able to get along with about half of them. It seems to me that what we want is a comfortable home, enough to eat and drink, and a few fal-lal sort of things to make the girls look pretty; and that all the rest is rot.
Once detached from the vigorous stock which produced them, the wind of their restless ambition drives them over the earth, like dead leaves that will in the end be heaped up to ferment and rot together. Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds, but by an evolution slow and certain. In preparing a career for our children, let us imitate her.
But Gladys herself affects to have no pride in her long descent; that very day she was quoting to me that rot of Burns about rank being only the guinea stamp, and all that sort of thing. All very well for a fellow like Burns, who was only a ploughman. It has done Gladys a lot of harm living in the slums; it won't be easy eradicating her queer notions, I can tell you.
DR. JONATHAN. Can you get your rights now, without obstructing the war? I get what you're driving at, doctor. You're going to say that we've just reached quantity production on these here machines, and if labour gets from under now, the Huns win. When a building with dry rot catches fire, Rench, can you put limit to how much of it will burn? Maybe not. I get you but
"Rot!" he exclaimed, throwing the manuscript aside in disgust. "It's rot, isn't it! If I can't turn out better stuff than that, I'd better quit. And I thought it was pretty decent, too, until to-night." Captain Elisha shook his head. "It don't seem quite so shipshape, somehow," he admitted, "but I guess likely it's 'cause my head's full of other things just now.
"I see." Jake regarded him with a very direct scrutiny. "I'm to be kept in my place, is that it?" Bunny coloured. "That's the fourth time you've called me a bounder since we came in. What do you mean by it, Jake?" "What do I mean?" Jake spoke rather sadly. "Well, maybe that's just what I do mean, Bunny. You're beginning to bound." "Rot!" said Bunny, though he coloured more deeply than before.
Lewisham, as became the most promising student of the year, weighed the evidence comprehensively under headings. He dismissed the mediumistic séances as trickery. "Rot and imposture," said Smithers loudly, and with an oblique glance to see if his challenge reached its mark.
But there is a tragic other side to all that, which mostly we make up our minds to say little about and to forget. The indifference which has made that ignorance possible, and has in its turn been fed by the ignorance, is in some respects a more shocking phenomenon than the vicious life which it has allowed to rot and to reek unheeded.
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