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For quite different reasons William Roubli, an outlawed clergyman from Basel, whom Zwingli himself has styled a rash and foolish babbler, and Hans Gunthelm, an impudent deserter, had not only done the same with great parade and loose talk, but had attempted also to induce other families to join them. Gladly did Zwingli's enemies seize this opportunity to lodge complaints before the Council.
There is C , a fellow that is always in the wrong who puts might for right on all occasions a Tory in grain who has no one idea but what has been instilled into him by custom and authority an everlasting babbler on the stronger side of the question querulous and dictatorial, and with a peevish whine in his voice like a beaten schoolboy.
My uncle was not a man to make a confidant of anyone, least of all an old babbler like Higgins. 'Well, I should like to be introduced to Higgins as a benighted foreigner. That will make him despise me and treat me like a child. 'Oh, I say, protested the earl, 'I should have thought you'd lived long enough in England to have got out of the notion that we do not appreciate the foreigner.
The king, who owed me a reward, might have rewarded me as a soldier, without contriving that history of the ransom, which affects you, my lord." "No," said Monk, laughing: "it does not affect me in any way, I can assure you." "Not as regards me, I can understand, you know me, my lord, I am so discreet that the grave would appear a babbler compared to me; but do you understand, my lord?"
Reggie Byng was friendly, and would not wilfully betray him; but Reggie was also a babbler, who could not be trusted to keep things to himself.
He would have liked to question Reggie, to probe him, to collect from him inside information as to the progress of events within the castle walls; but it is a peculiarity of golf, as of love, that it temporarily changes the natures of its victims; and Reggie, a confirmed babbler off the links, became while in action a stern, silent, intent person, his whole being centred on the game.
As Desire had the least Part in the Passion I heretofore professed towards you, so has Vanity no Share in the Glory to which you have now raised me. Innocence, Knowledge, Beauty, Virtue, Sincerity, and Discretion, are the constant Ornaments of her who has said this of me. Fame is a Babbler, but I have arrived at the highest Glory in this World, the Commendation of the most deserving Person in it."
"Sir, I beg you to silence this insupportable babbler," said the chevalier to Chemerant, "you must see how painful this scene is to me." "You see, sir," said Chemerant to the lieutenant of marines, "the persons who are going to embark, do so under my personal responsibility. I am Chemerant, commissioner extraordinary to the king, and am furnished with full powers."
"Yes, you are talking to a woman now," she hissed. "Babbler, preacher, parson, coward! Why did you not say this to him?" "I'll say it in due time," he answered, deliberately folding his arms. "In the meantime, I will inform you, as you are in search of a master, that I am your master and the master of this house."
But there are others of whom no man knows anything, and George Vavasor was such a one. For myself I like the open babbler the best. Babbling may be a weakness, but to my thinking mystery is a vice. Vavasor also maintained another little establishment, down in Oxfordshire; but the two establishments did not even know of each other's existence.
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