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Its lich-gate held an image before which Mrs. Hilliard melted in a welter of devotion. "Tommyrot," fumed her guide, nonplussed at this new vagary. Ignored, Shelby braced himself patiently against a pillar in the dusky recess while the penitent knelt and pattered in deeps of contrition which the ministrations of her low-church rector in New Babylon had never plumbed.
Do you know, many persons believe that if a woman acts acts well, as I am doing now, the man to whom she gives in will, down at the bottom of his heart, cease to respect and love her in time in time, I mean?" "Bosh and tommyrot!" Buckton fairly glowed. "Never, never, when the case is like ours. We are simply doing our duty to ourselves. Love you? Why, I adore you! You have saved my life, darling.
I had to let the next deal pass without any further attempt to discover Dodds's opinion about tommyrot. I was trying to think out what Mrs. Dodds meant by accusing me of wanting to play chess. It struck me as an entirely gratuitous and, using the word in its original sense, impertinent suggestion. Nothing I had said seemed in any way to imply that I was thinking of chess.
Oh, I know, I've heard you talking, all of you of the faces that you see in dreams and that are ever so much more beautiful than the faces that you see when you're awake; of the wonderful songs that nobody ever sings, the wonderful pictures that nobody ever paints, and all the rest of it. I don't believe a word of it. It's tommyrot!" "I wish you wouldn't use slang." "Well, you know what I mean.
Only I feel a little frightened. Let's ask Albert's uncle first. Alice is a jolly sight too fond of asking grown-up people things. And we all said it was tommyrot, and she was to tell us. 'Well, promise you won't do anything without me, Alice said, and we promised. Then she said
"Might think I was the kid's father to see what an interest I take in him," the young man told himself reprovingly. "It's all tommyrot, too. A boy had ought to have more grit. I expect he needed that licking all right I saved him from." When Bucky had eaten, the camp things were repacked for travel.
I don't know. Who's going to be any the better for all this? There's a lot of Tommyrot about charity. If I were going to splurge I'd do it in the middle of the stage and make an advertisement of it at the same time. It's cheaper and more sensible. Why, if Uncle Levi would spend in Boston what he's spending up here he'd have the world talking about his mills." Sandy turned away.
Some tommyrot about a conspiracy against the Czar. But just what it was I was never told. I am forbidden to re-enter Russia." "I don't understand at all," said Boris. "Mikail can't want to keep your mother's property for himself. He is a very rich man by far the richest of the family, though none of the Suvaroffs are poor. And I know about your mother's lands, because they are next to our own."
"That's it; I sliced it," declared Harding, as if that were more or less of a valid excuse. "You come over that fence an' I'll slice you!" roared Bishop, taking a step forward. "Things have come to a fine pass in this country if an honest farmer can't take his milk to town without riskin' bein' murdered by plutocrats with 'sliced balls' and all that blankety-blank tommyrot.
If she is the kind of woman I imagine her to be she probably resented the publication of a portrait of her daughter dressed in a single garment only and that decidedly shorter than an ordinary night dress. Opening the magazine at page one, I came upon an editorial article. The rapid increase of the habit of talking tommyrot was dwelt upon and the necessity for prompt action was emphasized.
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