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The fact of his being a man of extremely few words was enough to account for the friendship which existed between him and the garrulous Langley. Whitson was known to be a dead shot with the revolver.
The guests rattled on the table, and cried, "Hear!" most vociferously, as if now, at length, in this foolish and idly garrulous world, had come the long-expected moment when one golden word was to be spoken; and in that imminent crisis, I caught a glimpse of a little bit of an effusion of international sentiment, which it might, and must, and should do to utter.
His sister regarded him smilingly, then partly turned around and perched herself on the padded arm of a great chair. "Phil, am I garrulous?" "No, dear; you are far too reticent." "Pooh! Suppose I do talk a great deal. I like to. Besides, I always have something interesting to say, don't I?" "Always!"
"Ninety-eight cents per word," replied Mr. Skinner, who had just looked it up. "We will if you please, Skinner, confine ourselves to round numbers. There is such a thing as being too exact. Call it a dollar. Figuring on that basis, I see this garrulous mate has squandered five dollars of our money to no purpose yes, by jingo, more than that. He might have used the code book! Hum-m-m! Ahem!
It had not been difficult, after the departure of Sybil, to extract this information from the garrulous wife of the weaver. And that father, he was not unknown to Egremont. His proud form and generous countenance were still fresh in the mind's eye of our friend. Not less so his thoughtful speech; full of knowledge and meditation and earnest feeling!
The latter is a particularly garrulous business, and I was horrified to discover that it was so gruesomely entertaining to the women of the church and neighbors who helped. My first corpse was the young wife of a farmer, who had died of "the fever," as usual. Sister Fleming and Sister Glory White had helped me "lay her out."
The rough-and-ready borderman was still housed under the same thatch of hair with the sentimental old Irishman, and yet it would have sorely puzzled the keenest observer to discover the relationship of that handsome, rather serious-browed, richly clothed young woman and her big, elderly, garrulous companion.
Astonishing-looking packages were smuggled from one room to another. Ned created a succession of panics, and at last the ubiquitous and garrulous little urchin had to be tied into a chair.
She really hoped she did not care, for 'Liza Cotton's heart was a kindly one, and she never told her tales from malice, but from a sheer inability to be quiet. "You'd better look out you don't lose both your beaux," she added. "You and the minister don't seem so chummy since Christmas. Did you have a tiff?" Jessie's eyes sparkled, and the garrulous visitor knew she had gone too far.
Doris asked him shyly, as he stood back for her to pass. "I am going round to the stable," he said. "May I come to you there?" she suggested. He assented gravely: "Do!" Granny Grimshaw was in her most garrulous mood. She took Doris up the old steep stairs and into the low-ceiled room with the lattice window that looked over the river meadows. "It's the best room in the house," she told her.
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