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Listen," returned Lane. "And don't ever tell this to a soul. I interested myself in Bessy Bell. I've met her more times than I can count. I wanted to see if it was possible to turn one of these girls around. I failed on my sister Lorna. But Bessy Bell is true blue. She had all this modern tommyrot. She had everything else too. Brains, sweetness, common sense, romance.
"Is the pie good, Richard?" she asked. "Fine! Can you spare me another piece?" "I'm glad you'll never be too proud to eat pie," she returned. "Not even when it's humble," laughed Warrington. "There are some folks roundabout who do not think pie is proper," seriously. "Not proper? Tommyrot! Pie is an institution; it is as unassailable as the Constitution of the country.
What is the proper word? Give it me." "I suppose you mean cant," I suggested. "No, I don't. Cant is something that you don't believe in yourself. It's tommyrot: there isn't any other word. When I'm in love it will be with something that is real." I was feeling angry with her. "I know just what he will be like. He will be a good-natured, commonplace "
Even Miss Battersby, who must know more about girls than any bishop, felt that Lalage had lost something not to be regained when she became intimate enough with Tom Kitterick to rub glycerine and cucumber into his cheeks. Lalage was, in my opinion, herself guilty of something very like the sin of tommyrot when she mocked another bishop for a sermon he had preached on "Empire Day."
And I am not strong for disembodied minds, either. They make me nervous. They sound like skulls and cross-bones, and whitening skeletons to me. I love you, your arms, your face, all of you. It may not be proper to talk about it, but I love it. Can you imagine our minds embracing each other, thrilling at the contact, oh, it's tommyrot. A fool
All I tried to do was to make her forget the tommyrot. And I think I did." "Well, I'll be darned!" ejaculated Blair. "Dare, that was ripping fine of you.... What'll you do next, I wonder." "Come on with your favor," added Holt, with a keen bright smile. "Would you be willing to see Bessy occasionally and sort of be nice to her you know?" asked Lane, earnestly.
Fendrick, riding on Mesa Verde, met Bob Cullison, and before he knew what had happened found a gun thrown on him. "Don't you move," the boy warned. "What does this tommyrot mean?" the sheepman demanded angrily. "It means that you are coming back with me to the ranch. That's what it means." "What for?" "Never you mind what for." "Oh, go to Mexico," Cass flung back impatiently.
We're getting right up in society. A duel's more etiquettish than bridge-whist, Steve. Ain't you honored, being invited to one. You're to be my second, you see." "I'm hanged if I do," exploded the old miner promptly. "Sho! It ain't hard, when you learn the steps." "I ain't going to have nothing to do with it. Tommyrot! That's what I call it." "Don't say it so loud, Steve, or you'll hurt Mr.
Ballard, and we had no intention of bothering you with the details." "Huh!" snorts Mr. Ballard. "And what is this precious corporation of which I'm supposed to be the head?" "Why, Mutual Funding," says Mr. Robert. "Funding, eh?" comes back Ballard snappy. "What tommyrot!
Tristram, who was a normal Englishman, self-contained and reserved, and too completely healthy to be highly-strung, felt undreamed-of sensations rise in him when he looked at her, which was as rarely as possible. He understood now what was meant by an obsession all the states of love he had read of in French novels and dismissed as "tommyrot."
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