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At the other or lower extreme, there are perhaps one-tenth who are so-called "rotters," the men who set the evil standards of the camp and whose conduct is almost altogether selfish and materialistic. Between these two extremes are the great majority, or four-fifths, whom it is so difficult to classify. It is our conviction that these men "are not saved, but are salvable."
The people in the Cabañal are donkeys, idiots, rotters, that's all! Tonet, God save us! Why, Tonet ... he worships Dolores, like a mother.... But no, my house has simply got to be a brothel, for those chatter-boxes.... Tonet! God!"
"Shoot!" repeated Flint, staring vaguely into Gary’s bloodshot eyes; "you shoot, you old slacker " "Shut up and play the game!" cut in Carfax, a menacing roar rising in his voice. "You’re all slackers and rotters, too. Play the game! Keep playing hard! or you’ll go clean off your fool nuts!" Gary walked heavily over and knocked the tennis balls out of Flint’s hands.
'E was talkin' an' jokin' to me only a few minutes back, an' now 'e's dead. The way 'e said 'O me poor mother! nearly set me cryin'. Poor old chap, 'e was one o' the best it's allus the best as gets killed an' the rotters left alive." No more shells dropped into the town that day, but instead of going back to the billet, the men made their beds in the barn at nightfall.
"I'm not very much to look at," he remarked on the first of these occasions he was a weedy, pallid youth of six-and-twenty "and the title's not very old, I must admit. Governor only a scientific Johnnie, Margetson, the celebrated chemist, you know, who discovered some beastly gas or other and got made a peer but I can sit with the other old rotters in the House of Lords, you know, if I want.
I think he will. I don't know for certain but I have an idea she refused him this morning." "Ah, but that was this morning. Things look very different by star light. That child ought not to be out there with him. She is losing her head." "Aunt Lottie! Alan is a gentleman," demurred Carlotta. Miss Lottie smiled satirically. Her smile repeated Ted Holiday's verdict that some gentlemen were rotters.
"I could stand it, too, except being up here with such" his voice dwindled to a mutter, but it sounded to Gary as though he had used the word "rotters." Flint’s face had a white, strained expression; he began to walk about, saying aloud to himself: "If I could only sleep. That’s the idea sleep it off, and wake up somewhere else. It’s the silence, or the voices I don’t know which.
"The whole thing," he said "to marry at all, to begin with, and to marry an unknown woman, to have one's debts paid, for the rest! It is a tall order." "A most common occurrence. Think of the number of your peers who have gone to America for their wives, for no other reason." "And think of the rotters they are most of them!
We're a lot of slow old rotters, and we'll be just where you left us yawning, and shying at new people and at all new ideas except about clothes, and gossiping about each other." And he was in the auto and off for the station. Scarborough often rode with Gladys and Pauline, sometimes with Gladys alone. One afternoon in August he came expecting to go out with both. But Gladys was not well that day.
He rots me about it like anything, but, all the same, I believe he's really rather bucked because I've roped in quite a dozen voters who wouldn't have stirred a yard if I hadn't turned up. That's where we're scoring. Pedder hasn't got a car yet, and these old rotters round here aren't going to move out of their chairs to go for a ride in an ordinary cart.
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