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But he said nothing, and the eager young voice went on. "The skies might have opened and the Lord's finger pointed at me, and I couldn't have felt more shocked. The sermon was mostly tommy-rot, you know platitudes. You could see that the man wasn't clever had no grasp old-fashioned ideas didn't seem to have read at all.
"Evolution is the basis of modernism. Carried to its logical conclusion, it annihilates revealed religion. "When we protest against the teaching of this tommy-rot by instructors paid by taxation, they accuse us of stifling conscience and interfering with free speech.
"If there were one day more of this," Dick said to Norris, as they tramped home late on the night before election, and felt a certain restfulness in the November starlight, "I should send down a wheezing nasal phonograph to grind out my speech. I am played out. Everything I say sounds like tommy-rot." "It does grow hollow. The worst of it is it robs me of my evenings with Madeline."
No one revealed the slightest sign of apprehension arising from the mysterious demonstration in which nature had taken a hand. Truxton King was holding forth, with cynical good humour, for the benefit, if not the edification of Baron Dangloss, with whom he rode Mr. Hobbs galloping behind not unlike the faithful Sancho of another Quixote's day. "It's all tommy-rot, Baron," said Truxton.
But that's absolute tommy-rot." "The man must be mad." "I should have said he had been drunk, but there doesn't seem to be any trace of that. Anyhow, he sees visions, and I maintain that the Chatham and Dover people oughtn't to have their boats steered by men who see visions, eh?" "I agree with you. I suppose we aren't now in any real danger?" "I should hardly think so. We might have been.
"Say, Handy, an idea strikes me. What do you say to the suggestion of doing the combat scene with two-ounce gloves. A great scheme, eh? Don't you think so? 'Twould be modernizing the piece and bring it down to date." "Shades of Shakespeare, angels and ministers of graces defend us! Smith, Smith, my boy, don't talk tommy-rot! Gloves instead of swords! Go to.
And he growled a lot because Mary wanted him to eat his fish without a knife, 'and that sort of Tommy-rot. When he'd finished he took his gun, and the black boy, and the dogs, and went out 'possum-shooting. When we were alone Mary climbed into the buggy to try the seat, and made me get up alongside her.
Little dreamed that mother, poor mortal! when with tireless iteration she ticked off his extremities; 'This pig went to market; this pig stayed at home' little did she dream, when she wiped the perpetual dribble from his mouth; when she poured all manner of unintelligible tommy-rot into his inattentive and conspicuous ears little did she then dream that the blind evolution of events would transform her inexplicably valued baby into a scrap of floating wreckage on a sea of trouble; scarcely amounting to a circumstance in the vast and endless procession of his fellow-waifs.
"But I say," protested the Queen's Messenger, shaking his finger violently at the Solicitor, "that story won't do. You didn't play fair and and you talked so fast I couldn't make out what it was all about. I'll bet you that evidence wouldn't hold in a court of law you couldn't hang a cat on such evidence. Your story is condemned tommy-rot. Now my story might have happened, my story bore the mark "
I seem to feel that he is lurking near, awaiting his next opportunity." "That's tommy-rot! You have let this old ring mix you all up. Don't slip any cogs now, Frank, or you may have the pleasure of seeing your new rival, Paul Rains, appointed a corporal, while you still remain an ordinary cadet." Frank flushed. "Rains is not a bad fellow," he said. "He is square."
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