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"Tosh!" snapped Dunbar, irritably; "your ideas of psychology would make a Manx cat laugh! I suppose, on the same analogy, you think the leader-writers of the dailies could run the Government better than the Cabinet does it?" "I think it very likely"... "Tosh! Is there anybody in London knows more about the inside workings of crime than the Commissioner? You will admit there isn't; very good.
For a moment I thought of cabling Aunt Agatha to come over, but reason told me that this would be overdoing it. I wanted assistance, but not so badly as that. I hit what seemed to me the happy mean. I cabled to Gussie's mother and made it urgent. 'What were you cabling about? asked Gussie, later. 'Oh just to say I had arrived safely, and all that sort of tosh, I answered.
"I also leave a book for Nanny Webster, and I charge you, Peter Tosh, to take it to her, though she be not a member of my church. "The pictorial Bible with 'To my son on his sixth birthday' on it, I bequeath to Rob Dow. No, my mother will want to keep that. I give to Rob Dow my Bible with the brass clasp.
"Perhaps he'll take us up one of these days if we behave nicely about Aunt Polly-wolly-doodle," he said hopefully; "that is, if there really is anything in Mollie's tosh. He looks an aged old party to be turning somersaults in the air, I must say." The welcome sound of the tea-bell put an end to their discussion, and soon Dick was drowning his sorrows in strawberries and cream.
"Supposing he does think him better. Supposing he doesn't know. Supposing he's a bleating idiot.... I expect the dear old pater knows how he is a jolly sight better than anybody can tell him.... And you know you're worrying about him yourself. So's the mater. She's been crying." "She's jealous of the nurse. That's what's the matter with her." "Jealous? Tosh! That nurse is an idiot.
This was a new view to Mr. McCunn. "I just once knew a paper-maker," he observed reflectively, "They called him Tosh. He drank a bit." "Well, I don't drink," said the other. "I'm a paper-maker, but that's for my bread and butter. Some day for my own sake I may be a poet." "Have you published anything?" The eager admiration in Dickson's tone gratified Mr. Heritage.
"Fancy you being like this," said Mavis, when she had dried her eyes. "Like what?" "Not minding my having a baby without being married." "I'm not such a fool as to believe in that 'tosh," declared Miss Toombs. "What 'tosh, as you call it?" "About thinking it a disgrace to have a child by the man you love." "Isn't it?" "How can it be if it's natural and inevitable?"
"But it couldn't have been only tosh you were talking," the girl persisted, "because I remember you were so keen about keeping what you said secret, you spoke the strangest language together most of the time. I could hear every word" she had already explained about the freak acoustics of the Café des Exiles "and not one meant anything to me."
"Oh, that's all tosh!" replied the other rudely. "They were bound to hear of it sooner or later; why, everybody on the front is talking about it. I thought you'd be awfully bucked to hear the news, seeing that you were sitting at the next table to him yesterday morning."
He had several wealthy people interested, he said, and he was going to do something really big in the flying line. We were nearly flying at the time. Of course, there aren't many people about this part of Essex, but it really was risky. He said this London-to-Paris and London-to-Manchester business was all 'tosh, he was going to beat that easily.
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