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These excite in them but an obtuse sentiment; such persons are, with regard to objects of taste, what the blind are with regard to light. The second class are the absent-minded, chatterboxes, persons engrossed in business or ambition, and others who seek to occupy themselves with two things at once, and eat only to be filled.
Our cursed equipages betray every thing; they are the greatest chatterboxes! How astonished these good Romans would be to see a cardinal's carriage before these houses of the condemned! No, no, strengthen yourselves for another effort, my reverend legs! Only yet this walk, and then you will have rest." And the cardinal trudged stoutly on until he reached the Jesuit college.
"Poor fellow, with that face?" said Power. "No; you must be content to wait and get well." "It isn't the face that keeps me in, Power; it's the bang on the head, Keith says." "Yes, and Keith says that he doesn't know when you will be well if these young chatterboxes stay with you," said the good-humoured doctor, entering at the moment. "Vanish both of you!"
In a word, if it hadn't been for Jeanne d'Arc, France would not now belong to that line of histrionic, forensic, perfidious chatterboxes, the precious Latin race Devil take it!" Durtal raised his eyebrows. "My, my," he said, laughing. "Your remarks prove to me that you are interested in 'our own, our native land. I should never have suspected it of you."
Off ran the old wife with what she had heard to all the gossips and chatterboxes round about, and soon the one came running after the other to ask about the Princesses, 'if he had seen them', 'if they would soon be there', 'if they were on the way', and much more of the same sort.
"Oh, I'm never too tired for gadding," replied Cecile with animation. "But I can't answer half the questions those chatterboxes ask, and this morning Allee was as bad as Peace. She wants to know if a chandelier crows and is just an ordinary rooster. Peace thinks those green-houses we pass on the car ought to be called 'white-houses, because they are painted white.
Paul's frequent allusions, tinged with hero-worship, had given her that understanding. "I saw you in your box," she told him with a smile. "And I saw you in yours," he laughed back at her. The girl raised her brows, and he explained. "I ran away from the chatterboxes and came up to your gallery."
But then he fought out of it directly, like a man; and there was an end of it, or ought to have been. Hang chatterboxes!" "And what did you say to console him, Edward?" inquired Julia warmly. "What me? Console my senior, and my Stroke? No, thank you."
'I was obliged to tell her all, he faltered; 'she guessed, and I could not help it.... But now that's of no consequence, he hurried to add eagerly, 'everything has ended so splendidly, and she has seen you well and uninjured! Sanin turned away. 'What a couple of chatterboxes you are! he observed in a tone of annoyance, as he went into his room and sat down on a chair.
People do not talk to the procession." "How absurd! He is my confessor. May I not say good-morning to my confessor?" "Silence, chatterboxes!" "Who was that spoke?" "Oh, my dear, it was Brother Cucuzza, the begging friar." "Where is he? Where is he?" "There he is, along there, laughing into his beard. How bold he is!" "Ah, God in heaven! If we were to dream of him "
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