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"Did you know she had squads of them Italians, Poles, Abyssinians, for all I know, playing on dulcimers she's had them come up at night and visit her in her bedroom. They jabber and hoot and smoke, I believe. She's established an informal club in that house." Alston's irritation was extreme.
Oh yes, I heard more than enough. And I was right, too. A voice. He was very little more than a voice. And I heard him it this voice other voices all of them were so little more than voices and the memory of that time itself lingers around me, impalpable, like a dying vibration of one immense jabber, silly, atrocious, sordid, savage, or simply mean, without any kind of sense.
Our trusty Indian was beginning by that time to understand the English language, but he would not condescend to speak it. This, however, was of slight importance, as I had learned to jabber fluently in the native tongue. We speedily half-filled the large game-bag which the Indian carried. "I think we'll go into the thicker woods now," said I, "and try for some tree grouse by way of variety."
They went down together, she gripping his right wrist with both hands, and she was strong as most men. Father set the gun beside the door, and bent over them. A minute more and he handed the revolver to Leon, and helped Mrs. Freshett to her feet. Mr. Pryor lay all twisted on the walk, his face was working, and what he said was a stiff jabber no one could understand.
Other candles were lighted. Everybody talked in chorus. The landlady a woman of elegant manners and great command of her native tongue appeared with a candle, and joined in the melodious confusion. What is the price of these rooms? More jabber, more servants bearing lights. We seemed suddenly to have come into an illumination and a private lunatic asylum.
They tear up newspapers, litter the carpets, break, pull, and upset, and then jabber unheard-of English in self-defence; and what can you do for yourself? "If I had a child," says the precise man, "you should see." He does have a child, and his child tears up his papers, tumbles over his things, and pulls his nose, like all other children; and what has the precise man to say for himself?
"I learned to jabber it when I was a year old before I did English." "Then you'll do. I defy even Harrison to recognize you." He gave her his Mexican bow. "Gracias, señorita." When Threewit and Farrar reached Noche Buena, Pasquale was absent from camp, but Culvera made them suavely welcome.
It touched little groups here and there and fell full on the face of a woman in the steerage, who sat with her arms crossed on her knee and her face set eastward. She was singing, and her voice rose clearly above the puff of the engine and the jabber below. There was a chorus to the song, in which rough men and tired looking women joined.
All the magnetisers were scandalised at the preposterous jabber of this old woman, and De Loutherbourg appears to have left London to avoid her; continuing, however, in conjunction with his wife, the fantastic tricks which had turned the brain of this poor fanatic, and deluded many others who pretended to more sense than she had.
"Mrs. Dale, it is not my fault. I have asked Rickeybockey, time out of mind. But I suppose I am not fine enough for those foreign chaps. He'll not come, that's all I know." "Really, Squire, we had better give up playing if you put out my partner in this extraordinary way, jabber, jabber, jabber!" SQUIRE. "Well, we must be good children, Harry. What! trumps, Barney? Thank ye for that!"
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