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"Well, I do," Nancy said, "and I think that any woman who doesn't is just confusing issues, and taking refuge in sophistry. I wouldn't give that" she snapped an energetic forefinger, "for all your silly, smug little ideas of economic independence and service to the race, and all that tommy-rot.
He sort of upset Jock's stomach with his gab. The women, too, was considerable taken with him he's the sort that makes fool women take notice. It ain't pleasant to think of that sissy-boy actually setting up housekeeping here, and reflecting upon old established ways, with any tommy-rot about clearing trails and such foolishness." Joyce smiled. So that thought rankled in more lives than her own?
She greeted him cordially, without restraint; but for all that, a little shiver stirred the tendrils of hair at the nape of her neck. "The most famous man in Rangoon to-day," she said, smiling. "So you have read that tommy-rot in the newspaper?" They sat on her private balcony, under an awning. Rain was threatening.
They agreed that all communists were criminals; that this vers libre was tommy-rot; and that while there ought to be universal disarmament, of course Great Britain and the United States must, on behalf of oppressed small nations, keep a navy equal to the tonnage of all the rest of the world. Escott shook hands with Babbitt three times, at parting.
Lawrence returned, therefore, that afternoon with a strange sense of quiet and security. "It was almost, you know, as though this tommy-rot about a White Revolution might be true after all with this jolly old Duma and their jolly old Kerensky runnin' the show.
Competition will be keen. They are out to gobble up South American trade. We must get busy. The war talk is tommy-rot. Of course there will be wars in the future, but only irresponsible people think of war at present." Manuel Queson, in a long interview, after the "Wood-Forbes" report was out, said, "I do not agree with the report as the Islands are ready for independence."
A don seems to me to have the fixed idea that freshers naturally drink too much, at least that was the impression the Subby gave me." "What happened to you?" "I'm gated for a fortnight, and he talked a lot of tommy-rot." "Well, I think it is most frightfully decent of you," I said. "Oh, shut up," Ward answered, "I can't stand that. I have never done anything of the kind before and shan't again.
The children's voices, the high, reiterated singsong, "Where we goin'?" Winny's voice, poignantly soft, insufferably patient, answering them with all that tender silliness, that persistent, gentle, intolerably gentle tommy-rot. For all the time he was saying to himself, "She doesn't care. She doesn't care a hang. It's them she cares for. It's them she wants. It's them she's wanted all the time.
'After we'd been arguin' a long time about wot 'e called everlution or some sich name, and a lot more tommy-rot that I couldn't make no 'ead or tail of and to tell you the truth I don't believe 'e understood 'arf of it 'imself I ses to 'im, "Well," I ses, "if it's true that we're hall descended from monkeys," I ses, "I think your famly must 'ave left orf where mine begun."
"I beg your pardon for so speaking to a lady," he said crisply; "but I was born in the Established Church, and I don't go for kicking it over into a perfect slush of tommy-rot. Besides, my present job is to look out for Mr. Hopdyke, not to go off my 'ead, arguing about religion."
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