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"Abandon hope" was written over the portal of Molokai. "I tell you they are happy there," Kersdale insisted. "And they are infinitely better off than their friends and relatives outside who have nothing the matter with them. The horrors of Molokai are all poppycock. I can take you through any hospital or any slum in any of the great cities of the world and show you a thousand times worse horrors.
Why, youngster, how do you know but you were kidnapped for a ransom, and the game went awry? There are a thousand explanations of your unknown presence there. You may have been lost " "Then have I not a debt to the people with whom I lived!" "Oh, poppycock!" exclaimed the man angrily. "We'd better close the conversation. You understand how I feel.
He would have weighed this last possibility before speaking, if the mention of Roberts had not angered him. His combativeness made him persist: "If you don't want to come in with me, all you've got to do is to say so. You've no call to get up on your hind legs about it; it's easy to do settin'. But don't talk poppycock like that Professor; he's silly.
Five dollars for "The Ring of Bells" five dollars for five thousand words! Instead of two cents a word, ten words for a cent! And the editor had praised it, too. And he would receive the check when the story was published. Then it was all poppycock, two cents a word for minimum rate and payment upon acceptance. It was a lie, and it had led him astray.
It's that miserable idiot Tom Cowan that's to blame; he's been filling your head with nonsense; telling you that you are so good that you don't have to practise, and that Mills doesn't dare drop you, and lots of poppycock of that kind. Now, I'll tell you, chum, that the best thing to do is to go honestly to work and do your best."
No, that's not politics, but life is too short. We go out on deck." "To make the raft?" "Oh, that's all poppycock! Don't you believe no newspaper yarn. You just listen to me. I'm giving it to you straight. We go out on deck, and then I don't see Lockwin till we git the wood-choppers. How many of them wood-choppers, Noey?" "Ei-ei-eight!" "Mrs. Lockwin, them wood-choppers was no earthly use.
I think the trouble was that Bi never got it fully into his fool head that it wasn't just fun like puss-in-the-corner or blind-man's-buff. If you talked to him about Retrieving Last Year's Overwhelming Defeat he'd smile pleasantly and come back with some silly remark about Political Economy or Government or other poppycock.
"I think it was wicked to send you here by yourself," blurted Bolles. "Poppycock! It's the chance of my life, and I'll jam her through or bust." "I think they have decided you are getting turkeys because you are afraid of them," said Bolles. "Why, of course! But d' you figure I'm the man to abandon my Christmas turkey because my motives for eating it are misconstrued?"
On the other hand, as I said, the oldest law in business is 'Let the buyer beware, and it would not have disturbed me in the least, young man, had you appeared with a poppycock song of dissatisfaction with your purchase." "But I am satisfied," insisted Payne. "Some of the land I bought for $30 an acre will be worth $200 when the ditcher gets in and we drain it.
If I get too bored I can remember that I killed a man and develop a stricken conscience. Poppycock!... The old man'll be a nuisance. But he's quiet, thank God! Well, well ... I'm too civilized. I suppose I made an ass of myself. No.... A few tears more or less...." His thought paused. He walked, looking at things curbings, houses, street trees, lights in windows.
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