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His run of success had engendered within him a desire for conversation. He wanted, as it were, to flap his wings and crow. I could see Dignity wrestling with Talkativeness. I gave him the lead. "You have got your form now," I said. Talkativeness had it. Dignity retired hurt. Speech came from him in a rush.
Whereupon they looked at me no more, save with a Stern and Sorrowful Gravity; and the Hope I had nourished for a moment departed from me. I feel that my disclaimer notwithstanding the Bark of my Narrative is running down the stream of a Garrulous talkativeness; but I shall be more brief anon. And what would you have?
Mehemet could express himself in Russian, but his vocabulary failed him as soon as the conversation ran above very ordinary topics; Abdullah, on the contrary, was a first-rate interpreter, and under the influence of his musical pipe and lively talkativeness new acquaintances became sociable and communicative. Poor Abdullah!
"They that knew no more of him than by the briskness of his writings, found themselves deceived in their expectation, when they came in his company, noting the gravity and sobriety of his aspect and conversation; so free from loquacity or much talkativeness, that he was sometimes difficult to be engaged in any discourse; though when he was so, it was always singular, and never trite or vulgar.
I wanted to speak to you about the news from Rome. It is said that a commission is to be appointed to draw up a project for a municipal constitution." GEMMA and the Gadfly walked silently along the Lung'Arno. His feverish talkativeness seemed to have quite spent itself; he had hardly spoken a word since they left Riccardo's door, and Gemma was heartily glad of his silence.
In some of his letters he speaks of her as his 'lord Katie' and his 'gracious wife, and of himself as her 'willing servant. Once he declared that if he had to marry again, he would carve an obedient wife out of stone, as he despaired of finding obedience in wives. He spoke also of the talkativeness of his Katie.
But he meant well, nor is it any wonder that such a man should be incapable of such a sacrifice. The Lord had touched him. His nature was all in commotion with gratitude. His self-conceit swelled high. His tongue would not be still. Perhaps he judged himself a leper favoured above his fellow-lepers. Nothing would more tend to talkativeness than such a selfish mistake. He would be grateful.
'I am sure, said I, 'that women are very much belied upon the score of talkativeness, and that I may answer your question with the same directness with which you put it I reply that I DO think a woman can keep a secret. 'But I do not, said he, drily. We walked on in silence for a time. I was much astonished at his unwonted abruptness I had almost said rudeness.
My anxiety to examine the register did not dispose me to offer much encouragement to the old man's talkativeness. I agreed with him that nobody could help the untidiness of the vestry, and then suggested that we should proceed to our business without more delay. "Ay, ay, the marriage-register, to be sure," said the clerk, taking a little bunch of keys from his pocket.
But there were moments, even in the full flow of his talkativeness, when he suddenly hesitated looked at me for a moment with the vacant inquiry once more in his eyes controlled himself and went on again. Having now some right to consider the sacrifice as complete, I rose to take leave. As we shook hands, Mr. Candy reverted to the birthday festival of his own accord.
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