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After telling me the news from Ramsgate, Mrs. Finch began to drift into, what you call, Twaddle. She would keep her own letter back until the next day, on the chance of finding it. So Mrs. Finch driveled mildly on, in her large loose untidy handwriting, to the bottom of the third page. I turned over.
But for my part, says he, 'I want either the fried oyster or the kind that grow in pie crust, like they have 'em at the restaurants. Actually said that. "Well, he driveled along for a while, talking the awfulest bosh; and pretty soon he asked me if I was fond of mock-turtle soup. Said that the commission had discovered the feasibility of adding the mock-turtle to the food-animals of our rivers.
But I have heard it said that it is always a fine day in England when it don't pour." "Yes," admitted the visitor; and then he driveled into the most inane talk about climates, for you see this was the first time the poor young fellow had ever ventured to "Beard the lion in his den,"
His mouth was drawn awry, his speech entirely inarticulate, his eye obscured by thick rheum, and his clothes were stained by the saliva that occasionally driveled from his lips. His legs were wasted, his breast was sunk, and his protuberant paunch looked like the receptacle of dropsy, atrophy, catarrh, and every imaginable malady. My heart sunk within me. Poor creature!
All the way up the mountain he driveled to me about asparagus on toast, a thing that his intelligence in life had skipped. Up above I got his mind segregated from food and asked if he had raised the ransom. "My dear sir," says he, "I succeeded in negotiating a loan on thirty thousand dollars' worth of the bonds of our railroad, and " "Never mind just now, major," says I. "It's all right, then.
The very horses had caught the inspiration of the moment, champing bits in their effort to forge to the front rank, while the blood-stained slaver coated many breasts or driveled from our boots. Before we met the herd a halt was called, and about a dozen men were deployed off on each flank, while the main body awaited the arrival of the cattle.
Like the old Egyptians they debated first sober and then drunk, and to stagger my general notion that the ancients were unwise, candor compels me to own, it was while stammering, maudling, stinking and in every sense drunk that mephistopheles driveled out a scheme so cunning and so new as threw everybody and everything into the shade. It was carried by hiccoughation.
A painfully homely face with tears running from the closed eyes, with an open mouth that driveled and drooled. "What is it?" she thought, looking with faint curiosity. "And why is it here?" Two small fists now rose aimlessly in the air above the face and flapped about; and a very tempest of noise issued from the sagging mouth. "A baby," she reflected. Then memory came "MY baby!"
He sprang forward, caught her, and pushed the mirror back. Her head dropped on his arm. The young girl ran forward with some water as Hagar placed Mrs. Detlor on the sofa. It was only a sudden faintness. The water revived her. Baron stood dumbfounded, a picture of helpless anxiety. "I oughtn't to have driveled about that accident," he said. "I always was a fool." Mrs.
She smiled unwillingly, and turned her gray eyes upon him with troubled sunniness, and, under the kindness of her regard, he set a watch upon his lips, though he knew it might not avail him. He had driveled along respectably so far, he thought, but he had the sentimental longings of years, starved of expression, culminating in his heart.
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