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Personally I must admit that the nerve and actual genius required in finger manipulation have always attracted me." Mr. Moss paused, with his glass halfway to his lips. He jerked his head in the direction of Mr. Parker. "He is one for the gab, ain't he?" he remarked confidentially to me.
And with that he moved off, on the whole congratulating himself he had not decided to marry Miss Doolittle. "I thought after she commenced her miserable gift of the gab, that Lyddy used to be free to admit she had a fiery tongue, for all they were such friends. And I'm all for peace myself. I guess, on the whole, ma' be she ain't the one for me, perhaps, and it is as well to look further.
Now we are happy. To-morrer our faces will turn south an' shine with bear's grease. "Sez I: 'You must wash no more in the same water with the French. You must return to The Long House. The Big Father will throw his great arm eround you. "I strutted up an' down, like a turkey gobbler, an' bellered out a lot o' that high-falutin' gab. I reckon I know how to shove an idee under their hides.
"Well, Gab, say it." "Look here, Jed Winslow, do you hear me?" "Yes, hear you fust rate, Gabe now." Mr. Bearse's understanding was not easily penetrated; a hint usually glanced from it like a piece of soap from a slanting cellar door, but this time the speaker's tone and the emphasis on the "now" made a slight dent. Gabriel's eyes opened.
Oh, faix, the law is a dainty lady; she takes people by the hand who can afford to wear gloves, but people with brown fists must keep their distance." "I often remark," said his mother, "that fools spake mighty sinsible betimes; but their wisdom all goes with their gab. Why didn't you take a betther grip of your luck when you had it?
The result was, that in the argument which followed, the man of science was overcome by the man of law; and Sir William Follett had at all points the mastery over Dr. Buckland. “What do you say, Mr. Stephenson?” asked Sir Robert, laughing. “Why,” said he, “I will only say this, that of all the powers above and under the earth, there seems to me to be no power so great as the gift of the gab.”
"You-all can take it daid straight or not. I don't give a damn. But you've shore got my hunch thet Nez Perce Isbel is liable to handle any of you fellars jest as he did me, an' jest as easy. What's more, he's got Greaves figgered. An' you-all know thet Greaves is as deep in " "Shut up that kind of gab," demanded Jorth, stridently. "An' answer me. Was the row in Greaves's barroom aboot sheep?"
"You have all the tricks of the stage hero secret passages, fancy weapons, and crowning glory a fatal gift of gab!" Monsieur Chatelard arose, making his way toward the hatch. "Many thanks.
Of course a leader must have the gift of gab. She's a great talker, isn't she? Takes the conversation right into her own hands and keeps it there, doesn't she?" "Margaret does talk a lot," Judy admitted. "Too much perhaps for any one not deeply interested, but then of course I always am. Now, Edith Williams is the brighter of the two, but she knows it, don't you think so?"
"Never mind who it was," said Walter gravely; "use the gift discreetly." "Umph!" said the Corporal "yes, your honour," renewed he after a pause. "It be a marvel to think on how much a man does in the way of cheating, as has the gift of the gab. Wants a Missis, talks her over wants your purse, talks you out on it wants a place, talks himself into it.
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