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Updated: June 13, 2025
If that close-mouthed old wretch dines here often, my little girl will think him better than Uncle Tom! "I began to see uncle's crafty tactics, and must have looked at him in a questioning, half-apologetic way. "Uncle Thomas responded with: "'Oh, you little suspicious innocence! I was only pumping.
He looked across the gully and saw another wave coming Pender, this time. Pender came without yelling, grim and grey and close-mouthed. Pender had suffered before Beaver Dam Creek; to-day there was not much more than half a brigade. It, too, passed, a determined wave. Allan saw Field in the distance coming up. He was tormented with thirst.
If he had means beyond the ordinary no one knew it, nor could any man say that he had not. On all personal matters he was very close-mouthed, though he would talk about other men's riches in a way to show that he cherished some very extreme views. This was all which could be learned about him off-hand, and at so late an hour.
She would still preserve her reputation for being a close-mouthed woman who knew a lot more about everything than she chose to tell. "Anybody can see she's wearing mournin'," she added benevolently. "Oh, I thought mebbe she had a black dress on because they're stylish. She did look awful pretty in it, with her arms and neck showing through. I like black myself; but mourning that's different.
He already repented disclosing even so little of his private concerns, an impulse altogether at variance with his close-mouthed habit, but he had, for some vague reason, felt it necessary to explain his course, to justify himself to this clear-eyed, fine-spirited girl. He could not let her rest under a misapprehension that he was a brute who reveled in blood-spilling.
"Comes a little late to do Henry Livingstone much good," he said. "He's been lying in the Dry River graveyard for about ten years. Not much mourned either. He was about as close-mouthed and uncompanionable as they make them." The description Wasson had applied to Henry Livingstone, Bassett himself applied to the two ranch hands later on, during their interview.
"Why, that man is nothing but an old farmer," you cry in disappointment. "He ought to be peddling vegetables in a market!" But just wait. True enough, Skipper Broome had come from a long line of New England farmers, hard, close-fisted, close-mouthed men.
On the other hand, Pathfinder was a riddle to Captain Sanglier. The latter could not comprehend the other's motives; he had often heard of his disinterestedness, justice, and truth; and in several instances they had led him into grave errors, on that principle by which a frank and open-mouthed diplomatist is said to keep his secrets better than one that is close-mouthed and wily.
"Sometimes I wish I was a boy and could go to Putnam Hall." "Not much! I'd rather have you a girl!" declared Dick, and in the dark he gave her hand a tight squeeze. During those days Dick noticed that Captain Starr acted more peculiar than ever. At times he would talk pleasantly enough, but generally he was so close-mouthed that one could scarcely get a word out of him.
"Wal about this Schmitt, here; thar wuz two detectives come out from Noo Yorrk from the Fideral phad'ye call it. They wuz making inquiries about Schmitt. Fer th' wan thing he wuz an aly-an, 'n' they hed some raysons to think he wuz mixed up in plots. They wuz mighty close-mouthed about it, so I heerd, 'n' they asked more'n they told.
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