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And I haven't got the time to teach him, even if he wanted the place." "Father," began the girl, the fun leaving her eyes and her lips becoming grave, "I do not like the noises at night. I have not suggested the police, because robbery is not the motive." "Laura, that's all tommyrot. This is an old house, and the wood always creaks with a change of temperature. But this doesn't seem to touch Mr.
In every city and hamlet from New York to San Francisco, you will find the society column. It is all tommyrot to the outsider; but the proprietor is generally a shrewd business man and makes vanity pay tribute to his exchequer. The column especially in early summer, begins something like this: June will be a busy month for brides, and King Cupid and his gala court will hold sway.
Dad didn't want to see the family disgraced, so he let the cabman drive on, but he said if we got out of this visit to royalty alive, it was the last tommyrot he would indulge in.
"It's all tommyrot, of course. I don't say it's good; I say it's the stuff that goes. We're here to make what the public will pay to look at." Martinson, besides keeping his finger on the public pulse and attending to the marketing of the Acme wares and watching that expenses did not run too high, found a little time in which to be human.
I'd look nice running for mayor, wouldn't I? The newspapers would howl calamity, and the demagogues would preach that I would soon impose English wages in the shops, and all that tommyrot. No, thank you; I'll take trouble as it comes, but I'm not looking for it." "I see that I shall have to go back there and start the ball myself," said Warrington, jesting. "Why don't you?
"I don't blame the 'old man'," said he, magnanimously, "for cutting it out. It did sound like funny business; but it happened exactly as I wrote it. Say, why don't you fish that story out of the w.-b. and use it? Seems to me it's as good as the tommyrot you write."
The music came over the icy waters accompanied by the moan and shriek of the wind through the rigging with unearthly weird effect. "Say, why do we stop so much?" Bivens growled. "I'm freezing to death. Let's get to that yacht!" "We'll do our best," Stuart answered gravely, "and if you know how to pray now's your time." "Oh, Tommyrot!"
Bemis grinned a wicked, mean little grin and said: "That settles it. I believe I am safe in buying the waterworks." "What are you going to do to Bob?" Barclay asked. "Nothing, nothing absolutely nothing, if he has any sense and drops this municipal ownership tommyrot. Absolutely nothing." Again the grin came over his face, and at the end of a pause Barclay said: "Well, if not, what then?"
D'you s'pose I haven't eyes in my head?" The veneer of sobriety Beresford imposed on his countenance refused to stay put. MacLean fumed on. "Hmp! Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre, eh? Very pretty. Very romantic, no doubt. But damned sentimental tommyrot, just the same." "Yes, sir," agreed the constable, barking into a cough just in time to cut off a laugh.
But Clint was either too honest or possessed too little histrionic talent to attempt that plan, and by the time the Fall term was a week old, he, together with many another, was just barely keeping his head above water. He confessed discouragement to his room-mate one evening. Amy was sympathetic but scarcely helpful. "It's tommyrot, that's what it is," Amy said with conviction.
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