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The whole story of mankind's loneliness, of the effort to reach out to unattainable beauty tried to get itself expressed from the lips of a mumbling old man, crazed with loneliness, who stood by the side of a country road on a foggy morning holding a little dog in his arms. The arms of the old man held the dog so closely that it began to whine with pain. A sort of convulsion shook his body.
Their task was difficult, as anyone acquainted with the rambling, mumbling, confused and baffling character of plantation negro testimony will easily believe; and the convictions and acquittals were of course oftentimes erroneous. The remodeling of the system was one of the reforms called for by Southerners of the time but never accomplished.
When not occupied with mumbling, 'I quite agree with you' 'As you say' 'That is precisely my opinion' we sit about and ask each other riddles: 'What did the Pro-Boer? 'Why did Julius Caesar?" "Fashion has succeeded where Force for centuries has failed," added the Philosopher. "One notices the tendency even in public affairs. It is bad form nowadays to belong to the Opposition.
He sits all day in the dining-room, turning over papers, sorting them, tying them up, opening them again, forgetting them all fumbling and mumbling and confused. And at table sometimes he forgets to eat. And, listen, you know, from the house we can hear the trains whistling for the Long Trestle. As often as that happens the Governor seems to be oh, I don't know, frightened.
There came to Bones every mail day a thick wad of letters and parcels innumerable, and he could sit at the big table for hours on end, whistling a little out of tune, mumbling incoherently. He had a trick of commenting upon his letters aloud, which was very disconcerting for Hamilton. Bones wouldn't open a letter and get half-way through it before he began his commenting.
He swiftly stepped to his side, laying his hand soothingly on his shoulder. The flush subsided, the man's tense body relaxed. He shook his head mumbling. Fourteen pairs of eyes were looking toward the doorway as Justice Higginbotham once more returned, and came to an unconscious dramatic pause. He nodded, as if in confirmation of a statement.
"He has the appearance of a crazy man!" he reported. "Or it may be that he is making a charm and that is the weird song which he is mumbling. See, he has finally drawn Leif's attention upon him!" "He is not acting without a purpose," Helga persisted. "He told me to watch him. Look! What is he doing now?"
Then, after a mumbling interval, "and, if anybody calls, I won't see 'em except Notley, who comes at eleven. And, when he comes, send him up at once no kitchen gossip! I don't pay lawyers to come here and amuse kitchen wenches. Why don't you speak, eh? W-what?" "Because I've nothing to say, sir." "That's right, that's right.
When she was not mumbling incoherent nonsense she was laughing hoarsely at the plight she was in, and after that she would hold both hands to her chest and moan in a way that made Lone grind his teeth. When he lifted her off his horse at the foreman's cottage she was whispering things no one could understand.
Get you in if you be cold. Throckmorton appeared noiselessly at his elbow, whilst the Chancellor was mumbling: 'God forbid I should be called Lutheran. The torches, Throckmorton said, were those of fishers who caught eels off the mud with worms upon needles. 'Such night work favours treason, Cromwell muttered. 'Write in my notebook, "The Council to prohibit the fishing of eels by night."
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