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Updated: May 14, 2025
I watched you because, from the moment I saw you, I said to myself, 'if that little girl isn't utterly wretched and out of her element, among all these shallow chatterers and gigglers, I'm mistaken! I saw the lads gather about you, and I had my little laugh you must forgive me! at the quiet little way you evaded them all. Nice boys, all of them! But not worth YOUR while!"
Now one of the light-blue chatterers, then a lovely trogon, would seize a fruit as it darted by; or the delicate white wing and claret-coloured plumage of a lovely pompadour would glance from the foliage; or a huge-billed toucan would pitch down on a bough above us, and shake off a fruit into the water.
"Sir," replied the barber, "you affront me in calling me a prattler; on the contrary, all the world gives me the honourable title of Silent. I had six brothers, whom you might justly have called prattlers. These indeed were impertinent chatterers, but for me, who am a younger brother, I am grave and concise in my discourse." For God's sake, gentlemen, do but suppose you had been in my place.
This bird is one of our rarest of rare visitors, breeding in the far north; and even in its nest and eggs mystery enshrouds it. Up to fifty years ago, absolutely nothing was known of its nesting habits, although during migration Bohemian chatterers are common all over Europe. At last Lapland was found to be their home, and a nest has been found in Alaska and several others in Labrador.
Beautiful blue-billed gapers, all claret and black and white, flitted about, catching glossy metallic-looking beetles; little green chatterers, with their crested heads, flew from spray to spray; and tiny sun-birds, in their gorgeous mail of gold and bronze and purple, flew from flower to flower in search of honey.
I have had quite a search for you," she said, reaching out a cordial hand to her; for, despite the girl's self- poise, she had caught a quiver of loneliness on the expressive face. "I am Miss Reynolds, the teacher of mathematics, and I have been commissioned by Prof. Seabrook to find and show you to his study. But first, let me present you to these chatterers."
All I ask is that I shan't be troubled with you during the day." "Why, uncle," cried Alicia, "won't we see you at all in the daytime?" "No. I am a very busy man. I cannot have my work interrupted by a pack of foolish chatterers." "Whatever did you ask us for?" Alicia's round face wore a look of surprised inquiry. "Never you mind, miss.
"Good," thought Becker, "our chatterers have not been able to hold their tongues; I am surprised at that as regards Frank." "We expected to have found them at Rockhouse." "To have found whom?" "The sailors from the wreck." "What wreck?" "The Nelson." "I sincerely hope that the Nelson has not been wrecked." "In that case, whom do you refer to yourself, Miss Sophia?"
Every time I pass one of the commonplace statues placed in our public squares in memory of political chatterers who have died quietly in their beds, I think of all those brave fellows who have died obscurely for their country, with no funeral oration but the tears of their broken-hearted families, but who have carried away to their eternal dwelling-place the proud consolation of duty performed.
The zest of winter was gone. Three months more, till May, the cold might drag on, with the snow ever filthier, the weakened body less resistent. She wondered why the good citizens insisted on adding the chill of prejudice, why they did not make the houses of their spirits more warm and frivolous, like the wise chatterers of Stockholm and Moscow.
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