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They pay a civil visit to your rooms, and you see nothing but dark plots and challenges to war." "War!" cried Ansell, crashing his fists together. "It's war, then!" "Oh, what a lot of tommy-rot," said Tilliard. "Can't a man and woman get engaged? My dear boy excuse me talking like this what on earth is it to do with us?"
Then he's got a vicious slant against all this conservation business calls it tommy-rot. He and your father might lock horns first crack out of the box. But I'll risk it. I'll wire him at once." A knock at the door interrupted him, and Mrs. McFarlane's voice, filled with new excitement, called out: "Berrie, the District office is on the wire."
"I'll have a talk with Jennings in the meanwhile," he went on. "This suffrage tommy-rot is working all sorts of unnecessary havoc. I'm sick of it. I didn't suppose it had caught any one in our family though. You drop it, Ruth, for a while. You wait. I'm going back home next Wednesday. Now I want you to pack up your things and be ready to start with me Wednesday night from New York.
Thompson had succeeded in piquing her curiosity, Persis drew the enclosure from the envelope and for an instant studied the monogram at the head of the sheet. When her gaze dropped to the address, her eyebrows lifted. "Yes, I know," murmured young Mr. Thompson. "'Tommy darling. Tommy is short for Thompson, I suppose. Tommy-rot, I call it. You might read it aloud if you don't mind.
Fourth of July, elections and war-times you're the sovereign people, Tommy this and Tommy-rot; but for all practical purposes you're peons. "We're rich, we can afford a scratch-my-back-and-I'll-scratch-yours tariff that keeps our prices up arbitrarily, that takes fifty dollars out of your pockets to put in ours for every dollar it puts into the national treasury."
"You can call the charge 'tommy-rot' if you like," Carr protested, sharply.
"Spurlock," asked Haynes, in a thick voice, "are you in this tommy-rot business, too?" Spurlock, however, seemed equally deaf. "Then see here, both of you " insisted Haynes, choking with anger. The two first classmen turned their backs, walking slowly off. There was no chance to doubt the fate that had overtaken him. Haynes had been "sent to Coventry."
As for my chickens calling hens and roosters by names of big people is tommy-rot to him, and he don't any more know my longin's for a look at high life and for people who use elegant language and paint pictures and play the pianer than I understand how he can live in a teacup and not smash it.
It was all tommy-rot, as Jimmy says, but meant most kind.
Now I must stir myself." "Have the old women been good to you?" he asked, dropping his voice. "Very," she answered. "Not bothering you about all their religious tommy-rot?" She looked down at her hands. "No," she said. "And that hypocritical minister of theirs hasn't been at you again?" "Mr. Warlock's dead," she answered very quietly. "Warlock dead!"
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