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Maybe he's gone to the mountains, or over to his Long Island place, or abroad on a vacation. "Tommyrot!" says Old Hickory. "Gedney Nash never took a vacation in his life. I know he's in New York now." The gentleman sleuth shrugs his shoulders and allows that if Mr. Ellins ain't satisfied he might go up to Floor 11 and ask for himself. So up we went.
"What precinct do youse live in?" Farnum was not quite sure. He explained that he had moved recently. Big Tim grunted scornfully. He was pleased to have a chance to take down the cheek of any Farnum. "What do youse think you can do?" "I can make speeches. I'm the best orator that ever came out of Verden University." "Tommyrot! How do youse stand in your precinct?
You almost clung to me that night under the cedar tree." Her eyes for a moment were half closed. "It was a different world then," she whispered softly. "It was a different Mr. Burton. You see, since then a curtain has come down. We are starting a fresh act and I don't think I know you quite so well as I did." "Sounds like tommyrot," he grumbled. The taxicab came to a standstill.
There is some pretty good stuff, of course, but You see, I think it wasn't the poems themselves that made it sell; I think it was all the fool tommyrot the papers printed about me, about my being a hero and all that rubbish, when they thought I was dead, you know. That " She interrupted. "Oh, don't!" she cried. "Don't! I don't care about the old book. I'm not thinking about that.
Zosco," says I, "but Ellery has discovered a deep laid plot." "Eh?" says Zosco, gawpin'. "To do away with you and your wife," I goes on. "He says your brother Jake is in it, and Mrs. Jake, and the butler, and maybe a lot of others. Isn't that right, Ellery?" "Yep," says Ellery. "They're all crooks." "What confounded tommyrot!" says Zosco. "Why why, Jake wouldn't hurt a fly."
"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.
But who'd have thought he'd have the cheek to come out for governor? Did you ever hear of such tommyrot?" Austen looked grave. "I'm not sure it's such tommyrot," he said. "Not tommyrot?" Tom ejaculated. "Everybody's laughing.
He had never before seen her so smiling, to begin with, and never at all at himself. He longed to kick Arthur Elterton! Confounded impertinence! And what tommyrot dancing like this, in the afternoon with boots on!
After carefully wiping the ashes out of his teeth and kicking the proprietor's cat, he resumed: "I rather got off the subject, and don't want you to put me down as endorsing reincarnation, either, but when I hear a lot of folks talking about what a great man So-and-So was; how he had to get up before daylight to chop wood and feed the stock, in order to get to school on time, I say to myself, 'What Tommyrot!
But who'd have thought he'd have the cheek to come out for governor? Did you ever hear of such tommyrot?" Austen looked grave. "I'm not sure it's such tommyrot," he said. "Not tommyrot?" Tom ejaculated. "Everybody's laughing.
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