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"My boy," said Joey, very much gratified by his protege's attitude. "I like to hear you talk that way. But don't you go 'round gabbing about killing people. A word to the wise, my lad. You see wot I mean?" David turned perfectly livid and then sank back to his seat with a groan of despair. "You mean that my that I've got a bad name already?"
So the lost pocketbook became a treasured mystery of the village and of all the hills and valleys toward Ballybeen a topic of old wives and gabbing husbands at the fireside for unnumbered years. By and by the fall term of school ended. Uncle Peabody came down to get me the day before Christmas. I had enjoyed my work and my life at the Hackets', on the whole, but I was glad to be going home again.
I remember seeing Struthers run gabbing and screaming about the room and then try to bury herself under her mattress, like the silly old she-ostrich she was, with her number sevens sticking out from under the bedding. I remember seeing Whinnie picking up one of the white things that had rolled in through the broken window.
"With the butt end of his whip." "That's a lie! His team ran into Lohr's rig." "Not much; Ed crowded him into the ditch." "What fer?" "'Cause Bert cut him out with Maud." "Come, get out of the way! Don't stand there gabbing," yelled Hartley, as he took Albert in his arms and, together with the doctor, lifted him out of the sleigh. "Goodness sakes alive! Ain't it terrible!
So much for gabbing on the high road with some one who should be watching for suspicious spies instead of asking questions," she finished with a provoking toss of her head. Which sentence, considering that she had asked the first questions herself, was unjust. Roderigo, however, did not seem to resent the blame laid upon him.
He sat down in front of the view screen and did something to it. "All right," he said then. "We're here and set. Probability period starts in three minutes, continues for sixty. Signal on any blip. Otherwise no gabbing. And remember they're fast. Don't get sappy." There was no answer. Quillan did something else to the screen and stood up again. He looked broodingly at Trigger.
"He ain't isn't like Gabbing Dick; he's a fighting man and dangerous." "Who is he?" I demanded. "A Romany." "And what did the fellow say to you?" "Nothing to harm." "Did he suggest the the same as the Peddler and that hateful old hag?" "Lord and what if he did?" "Why, then," I answered, "for your sake there is but one of two courses that I can honourably adopt.
The one-eyed man was gabbing again, running out a continual stream of cheap and pointless talk, and offering the dice as usual for inspection. Some looked at the cubes, among the number the young man, who weighed them in his palm and rolled them on the table several times. Doubtless they were as straight as dice ever were made. This test satisfied the rest.
"That I'd been found in the big holler oak wi' my throat cut," nodded the Tinker. "But what did he mean by it?" "Why, y' see," explained the Tinker, leaning over to turn a frizzling bacon-rasher very dexterously with the blade of a jack-knife, "y' see, 'Gabbing' Dick is oncommon fond of murders, hangings, sooicides, and such like it's just a way he's got." "A very unpleasant way!" said I.
I was gaeing alang wi' the yowes, and there was he and Drummielaw riding and gabbing. Sae there cam on a skirling and jumping wind and rain, and we a' gat under a tree, the yowes and the dogs and Glenfernie and Drummielaw and me. Then we changed gude day and they went on gabbing. And 'Nae, says Glenfernie, 'I am nae lawyer and I am nae sodger.
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