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They stood well to the front in that proportionally small army of men who do the world's work. "Tommy-rot!" Dr. Parkman had responded a few days before to a beautiful tribute some one was seeking to pay "The Doctor" "A doctor is a man who helps people make the best of their bad bargains and damned sick he gets of his job.
"Never heard of one. There was some tommy-rot about a Mahommedan princess in the newspapers; but I knew there was no truth in that. Queer fellow! He wouldn't take the trouble to deny it." "Never showed any signs of being a woman-hater?" "No, not the least in the world. But to shy at meeting Nora Harrigan...." "There you have it; the privilege of the gods.
There'll be lots of talk and tinkering, tariffs and tommy-rot, and, underneath, the land-bred men dying, dying all the time. No, madam, industrialism and vested interests have got us! Bar the most strenuous national heroism, there's nothing for it now but the garden city!" "Then if we WERE all heroic, 'the Land' could still be saved?" Mr. Cuthcott smiled.
"Oh, I know all that tommy-rot," cried Hoyt, angrily, "but when anything happens I want to know the reason why and how it is done." "All right," answered his employer, "then you might explain why and how the sun rises." But he humored the young man sufficiently to examine with him the baths in which the plates were submerged, and the plates themselves.
"This was meant for you," she said, "and you may as well have it. Such stuff isn't in my line, thank goodness! and I can't make head or tail of it. But there's a word in it I happened upon, first time I opened the book; and it's stuck in my memory, for it happens to be holy sense, and not tommy-rot. This is it or something like it
I'll give it to you now. But for Heaven's sake don't look at it here! I should see by your face what you thought of it, and you're likely to think precious little of it; you'll think it tommy-rot; though, of course, you won't say so. Look here!" he went on, as he drew out the precious manuscript slowly, "don't tell me that it 'shows promise'; I can bear anything but that.
He has spent two years in America, but he assures me it is "all tommy-rot" the way they work like steam-engines there. Consequently he soon returned to his native land. "Denmark," he says, "is such a nice little country, and all this water and the forests make it so pretty...." Jeanne and I laugh at all this and amuse ourselves royally. The day before yesterday neither of the men appeared.
He made it up last night." "There may be some truth in it; you never know!" replied the Emîr in the same tone. He added aloud for Elias, who was staring fixedly out on the sea, still entranced by the vision he had just related: "If the place is guarded by nothing more terrible than your genis, I should like to go there." "Ha, ha!" laughed Elias. "That's all tommy-rot about the jinnis."
When Barcoo and the others re-entered the bar it soon became evident that Sally Thompson had been thinking, for presently he came to the general rescue as follows: "There's a blessed lot of tommy-rot about dead people in this world a lot of damned old-woman nonsense. There's more sympathy wasted over dead and rotten skunks than there is justice done to straight, honest-livin' chaps.
She was sure that the hours in the workroom would not seem half so long if Kate would wake up a bit, go to the play, and chat about what was going on in the town. How anyone could live with that horrid old woman always hanging about, with her religion and salvation, was beyond her. She hadn't time for such things, and as for Bill, he said it was all 'tommy-rot.
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