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"How do you know so much about all this?" cried Davy, his tone suggesting that Victor was wholly mistaken, but his manner betraying that he knew Victor was right. "Oh, politicians are human," replied Dorn. "And the human race is loose-mouthed. I saw years ago that if I was to build my party I must have full and accurate information as to all that was going on. I made my plans accordingly."
There appeared a man with a yellow fillet on his head and a robe that was studded with precious stones; a huge man with great limbs and flaming eyes; a loose-mouthed, hideous man who wielded a big axe of copper and carried a bow longer than any I had seen in that land. Hooking the axe to his belt, he set an arrow on the bow and let drive at me.
The boy flung up his arms to protect his face. Old man Annersley said nothing, but with ponderous ease he strode forward, seized the trader from behind, and shook that loose-mouthed individual till his teeth rattled and the horizon line grew dim. "Git your blanket, son," said Annersley, as he swung the trader round, deposited him face down in the sand, and sat on him. "I'm waitin'."
"Well, what are they what are they?" "Compliments for the sane, safe, and statesmanlike way we handled a crisis and saved the good name of the state." "Now, Morrison," raged the Governor, "you can begin to understand what kind of a damnable mess you've jammed me into along with Corson, here! That steer of a policeman will blab, that Scotchman will snarl, and that loose-mouthed girl will babble!"
"I'll come too," began Belwether, who had been listening, loose-mouthed and intent; "we're all in it Howard, Kemp Ferrall, and I " "And Stephen Siward," observed Plank, so quietly that Quarrier never even raised his eyes to read the stolid face opposite. Presently he said: "Do you know anybody who can deliver you any considerable block of Amalgamated Electric at the market figures?"
Also, Stuart realized that anyone whom the Englishman trusted was not likely to be loose-mouthed. "Senor Cecil said you were an American," the fisherman continued, "he meant by that " "Probably he meant that he knew I'd like to get this brown off my skin," declared Stuart, realizing that his disguise was unavailing now. "Have you any soap-weed root?"
"I reckon." "Loose-mouthed people make more trouble in a community than downright mean ones," declared Hiram. "If I have any serious trouble with the Dickersons, like enough it will be because of the interference of the other neighbors." "But," said Henry, preparing to go on, "Pete wouldn't dare fire your stable now after sayin' he'd do it. He ain't quite so big a fool as all that."
Then the lady would flit for the winter to those beauty doctors of Paris and New York, who operate on wrinkles and lay up muniments for fresh campaigns; and the "colonel" would betake himself to resorts where balm is accorded wounded honour; while loose-mouthed, simple-eyed young fellows went East for the winter lighter as to purse, wiser as to the ways of paying for pleasure.
"An' thet's been nigh on ter twenty ya'rs ... but Jim's old an' I'm old ... an' afore long we'll both be gone ... an' nuther one ner t'other of us hain't sich fools es not ter know what we've been holdin' down.... Nuther one ner t'other of us don't beguile hisself with ther notion thet all them old hates air dead ... or thet ef wild-talkin', loose-mouthed men gains a hearin' ... they won't flare up afresh."
I might be a spy sent in from without, or a stool pigeon made within, or I might be indifferent or loose-mouthed. But when they did resolve to trust me when I was elected a member of the "inner circle," as one of them phrased it, they had no reservations. I was called on to make no protestations, to register no oaths, nor did I solicit any communications.
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