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Updated: May 12, 2025
In the countries which I have visited, and, as I understand from others, every principal village or town has its bantaba, or palaver-house, which I have before described. In this house, or under the shade of some venerable tree, all ranks occasionally assemble in groups, from sun-rising to sun-set, and pass the time in chit-chat, or in conversation on public affairs.
"Already packing!" said the Irishman, as they turned their steps homeward, "that sounds like the first note of a fare-thee-well." "A true and fairly-well made remark, oh, Son of Erin!" "Your voice is glad as the bird-notes of my own Isle, which means you'll smile as you say farewell." And so in gay chit-chat Time seemed as naught until the villa was reached.
Satisfied that they had obtained the skin of the ursus niger, it only remained for our hunters to pack up their travelling traps, bid adieu to the cold climate of Scandinavia, and start for the sunny south for the far-famed Pyrenees of Spain. It is not intended to detail the many incidents that befell them on the way, the chit-chat of steamboats, railroads, and hotels.
I have gleaned, from casual chit-chat with my father, that Comrade Bickersdyke also infests the Senior Conservative. You might think that that would make me, seeing how particular I am about whom I mix with, avoid the club. Error. I shall go there every day.
So Gaud would tell her chit-chat she had heard in town, or spoke of the people she had met on her way home, talking of things that were quite indifferent to her, as indeed all things were now; and stopping in the midst of her stories when she saw the poor old woman was falling asleep. There seemed nothing lively or youthful around her, whose fresh youth yearned for youth.
"What are you doing in my room?" "Well, if it comes to that, you know shouldn't have mentioned it if you hadn't brought the subject up in the course of general chit-chat what are you doing in mine?" "Yours?" "Well, apparently there's been a bloomer of some species somewhere, but this was the room I had last night," said Archie.
If you allow your mind to wander vaguely about upon the vanities of the world, you will find prayer a difficult and rather an unpleasant task. Learn, therefore, I beseech you, to stay your mind upon the Lord, and great will be the peace and quietness of your soul. Precious moments spent in idle chit-chat with your companions or indulging vagrant thoughts are time worse than wasted.
I repeat that the marchioness' house was the rendezvous at the gates of Paris, where we assembled our bearers of intelligence. Under cover of chit-chat and vocal-waltzes, we heard reports and issued orders.
Trevalyon was not slow to see this little by-play, and his mental conclusion was: "Another fellow gone, stricken by a fair woman face, well I don't wonder, by Jove; for the beautiful little girl has developed into a lovelier woman, a man need not be ashamed to be the conquest of a face figure, and I've heard men say, mind, like Vaura Vernon possesses; heaven be praised for the retreat of the Douglas, though had the Douglas been wise he'd have kept the field, or tried to, but now I, while guarding my heart, shall talk to her; it will be a pleasant way to kill time, and her vivacity, merry banter, chit-chat, or grave to gay, or who knows, tender humours, will be a pleasant study in Rome for the next month or two."
At a little distance a middle-aged gentleman and three turbaned matrons were cutting in at whist, shilling points, with a half-crown bet optional, and not much ventured on. On tables, drawn into the recesses of the windows, were the day's newspapers, Gilray's caricatures, the last new publications, and such other ingenious suggestions to chit-chat.
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