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But the General said that this was one of his reasons for detailing me to perform this duty. He said he would have given it to Jasper Goodrum, of the Independents, but everybody in Tennessee knew Goodrum. "He was born and raised around here," the General said, "and he's got a tongue like a bell-clapper.
"More luck to you not to be, I say; and either, Sedgett, you does woman's work, gossipin' about like a cracked bell-clapper, or men's the biggest gossips of all, which I believe; for there's no beating you at your work, and one can't wish ill to you, knowing what you catch." "In a friendly way, Missis," Sedgett fixed on the compliment to his power of propagating news "in a friendly way.
The man was at length worked to a pitch of frenzy, and then thud, thud, mingled with objurgations and shrill night-piercing yells. Fury little short of murderous was familiar enough to dwellers in this region, but that woman's bell-clapper tongue had struck shame into Lydia. She could not speak another angry word. 'Thyrza, take your hat off, she said quietly, moving away a little from the door.
Morgante, who had the great bell-clapper in his hand above-mentioned, struck it on the ground with astonishment, as much as to say, "Who the devil is this?" and then set himself on a stone by the way-side to observe the creature. "What's your name, traveller?" said Morgante, as it came up. "My name's Margutte," said the phenomenon.
"I can't think of her bell-clapper tongue without gettin' mad, and I don't like to be that way with a woman. What does Johnny say?" "Oh, he talks as big as a railroad president; he talks jest the same foolishness as his brothers did; he's doin' the marryin' nobody else has a'thing to do with it. That's what hurts.
She talked to me in a way that I have read about in books, but which I did not before believe to be possible. Do you mean that he is going to be married to that hideous old maid, that bell-clapper?" "Oh, mamma, what slander! I think her so pretty." "Pretty!" "Very pretty. And, mamma, ought I not to be happy that he should have been able to make himself so happy?
Good old soul, Nellie. But her tongue hung in the middle and worked both ways like a bell-clapper. I always blamed her for the start of the miser yarn. Adam managed to get it over on her and that was enough." He made a final effort to read the will and while Kenny sat in stony silence, choking back a creepy feeling of despair, reached the clause pertaining to the residue of Adam's wealth.
"We are almost at Aunt Peggy's house. Don't stop to dig a well." And we broke into a gallop. Aunt Peggy was one of the ancients, a carpet-weaver, pious as Martin Luther, but a trifle liberal with her idioms. The tongue in her head wagged like a bell-clapper. Whatever was whispered in the Hills got somehow into Aunt Peggy's ears, and once there it went to the world like the secret of Midas.
She is but the slave of the lamp," responded Laura, still in flowery fashion. "The bete noire of the girls of Lakeview Hall is the half-past nine o'clock curfew. And I vow it shall not ring to-night!" "Why won't it?" asked Nan, finally grown suspicious. "Because," hissed Laura, her eyes dancing, "I climbed up into the tower this forenoon and unhooked and hid the bell-clapper.
"That's as well," observed Morgante; "because you see, as you don't believe in any thing else, I'd have you believe in this bell-clapper of mine. So now, as you have been candid with me, and I am well instructed in your ways, we'll pursue our journey together."
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