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Presently the mouth of the Cockatrice unsealed itself, and began to babble of green fields. "Hay I want hay!" said the Cockatrice; "or grass. Does the world contain any grass?" Beppo went out, and presently returned with an armful.
That was a distinct breach of the contract. As to the babble of the London world about a 'very young wife, he scorned it completely, but it belonged to the calculation. 'A very handsome young wife, would lay commands on a sexagenarian vigilance while adding to his physical glory. The latter he could forego among a people he despised.
As she entered the street where Ingolby lived, she suddenly realized the difficulty before her. She might go to him, but by only one right could she stay and nurse him, and that right she did not possess. He would, she knew, understand her, no matter how the world babbled. Why should the world babble? What woman could have designs upon a blind man?
There was a babble of voices, shrieks of feminine laughter, and an oath or two from the men. Some shouted, "Let them come." Others protested until Madam stopped the clamor by saying sharply: "Of course they shall come in. You know it is my custom never to refuse these people. I respect and admire them.
After four days spent with Erskine and his own brother James in Edinburgh, he went for a week's quiet to Scotsbrig, and was kept there, lingering longer than he had intended, by a sprained ankle, "blessed in the country stillness, the purity of sky and earth, and the absence of all babble." On April 20th he wrote his last letter to his wife, a letter which she never read.
Him she sought to draw into a conversation deeper than the usual babble, and with her calm, searching eyes, bent on him while he spoke, seemed to fathom the intellect she set in play. But as yet, this evening, she had not made her appearance, a sin against etiquette very unusual in her.
And if we babble all our doings to him, think you he takes it seriously? No, no so gay and thoughtless, there is a thoroughfare from ear to ear, and all's lost on the other side. Poor simple gentleman, he is a claimant on our courtesy, a knight without a sword, a guest without the power to leave us he shall make conditions, he shall have his caprice. La, la! my dear Duvarney and my Lancy!"
I've sometimes thought I don't know as I'm right they get the same kind of pleasure out of it that worldly people do out of a play. Not that I know much about such things, I'm sure." Helen smiled, which rather shocked Mrs. Grier; but though the guest scarcely listened, the little sharp babble of talk was kept up, until they went down to dinner.
La Mettrie might have done without Eulogy from a King of men. "The truth is," says Nicolai, "the King put no real value on La Mettrie. De la Mettrie showed himself unworthy of any favor he had. Not only did he babble, and repeat about Town what he heard at the King's table; but he told everything in a false way, and with malicious twists and additions.
Poor grasshoppers! who deem the gods absorbed In all their babble, shrilling in the grass! What wonder if they rage, should one but hint That thunder and lightning, born of clashing clouds, Might happen even with Jove in pleasant mood, Not thinking of Athenians at all!"
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