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"But finally they let me have my own way about it though daddy called it 'infant tommyrot' and so here it is!" She tilted up his head and looked into his eyes. "You, sir," she then went on "you, sir, from this day and date I reckon that is how daddy would say it you, sir, from this day and date shall be known as Pat. Your name, sir, is Pat P-a-t Pat!
"Tommyrot!" says he. "For once in his life the old fool played his head off, that's all. Nine holes in par. Huh! I'm liable to do that myself one of these days, and without the aid of any departed spirits. Yes, sir. The fact is, Torchy, I am practicing a new swing that ought to have me playing in the low 90's before the middle of the next season.
With her refreshing laugh, Evelyn brushed these aside as well. "Tommyrot! Never mind that old jumble-sale of all the virtues. It was jolly clever of a mite like you to bamboozle them as you did take my word for that." This jocose way of treating the matter seemed to put it in an entirely new light; Laura could even smile at it herself.
He loved this boy of his, with the dead mother's eyes, better than anything on earth, and all his hopes and ambitions were bound up in him. "Well, that fuss is over, thank goodness," he said testily, as he dropped into his favourite chair. "Didn't you find the programme interesting?" asked Eric absently. "Most of it was tommyrot," said his father.
"Now, see here, Brady, it's all damned tommyrot," he was saying,—and he had said something of the kind several times before in the course of their earnest conversation. "There's just one course open to you, and that's the right one. You've got to come back to New York and look people in the eye and tell 'em to go to Gehenna if they don't like what you're doing.
"'It may be tommyrot to you, Rod, said Emily haughtily. 'But the inspiration of the matchless minds of the mystic men of the Orient "'Inspiration of idiocy. What do mystic men of the Orient know about warm-blooded Americans, dead in love? I might kiss the air until I was blue in the face, nothing to it, but let me kiss you, and we are both aquiver, and
"She's done crazy things enough on this trip, but to talk of dancing all night with a gang of half-mad Norwegians and taking the carriage at four to catch the six o'clock train out of Riverton well, it's tommyrot, that's what it is!" "Wyllis, I leave it to your sovereign power of reason to decide whether it isn't easier to stay up all night than to get up at three in the morning.
Suddenly straightening himself, he drew his brow down close over his eye, half closing its lid, bent toward Gordon, and in a low tone slowly asked: "But I would like to know, Frank, what in the devil you really meant by that 'Freedom and Fellowship' in marriage?" "Just what I said." "Bah! You don't mean to apply such tommyrot to your own wife now that she's yours?" "Certainly."
We'd be just as happy." "To some people," Peter had objected, doubtfully, more than once, "there are other things than clothes and food!" "What things?" "Well, various things." "We have books, flowers, music, all out-of-doors," Alix protested, briskly. "Sympathy, my dear interpretation self-expression!" "Tommyrot!" she had responded without animosity.
"No," said Austen, and added with an illuminating smile, "Mr. Crewe doesn't need any help." "I'm glad you're not," exclaimed the downright Hastings, with palpable relief in his voice that an idol had not been shattered. "I think Humphrey's a fakir, and all this sort of thing tommyrot. He wouldn't get my vote by giving me lemonade and cake and letting me look at his cows.
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