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"Twenty pounds," repeated Miss Vickers, "or four hundred shillings, if you like it better. If you wait a moment I'll make it pennies." She leaned back in her chair and, screwing her eyes tight, began the calculation. "Twelve noughts are nought," she said, in a gabbling whisper; "twelve noughts are nought, twelve fours are forty " "All right," said Mr.
"What the devil are you telling us?" "God's truth, general." "What do you mean when you say, 'He was tried, condemned, and guillotined'?" "Oh! not exactly that. Tried and condemned, but not guillotined. If he had been guillotined he would be more dangerously ill than he is now." "Now, what are you gabbling about? What court tried and condemned him?" "That of the Companions of Jehu!"
Lo, I have drawn the Cadi to our plot, and bribed him with a mighty bribe; and I have prepared possible disguises for this nephew of the barber; and I have had the witnesses of thy betrothal despatched to foreign parts, far kingdoms in the land of Roum, to prevent tattling and gabbling; and ye that were left alone for debating as to the great deed, ye have not yet deliberated as to that!
They go around gabbling their heads off about every little thing, and adding onto it until you can't recognize your own remarks after they've been peddled for a week. You've maybe seen places like that." "Oh, yes." Lorraine's eyes lighted with a smile. "Take a movie studio, for instance." "Yes. Well, you being a stranger, you would get all the worst of it.
Lastly, placed already in the roped space and guarded by a soldier, poor old Bridget, the half-witted, who was gabbling words to which no one paid any heed. The path was clear now, and they were ordered to walk on. Half-way up the hall something red attracted Cicely's attention, and, glancing round, she saw that it was the beard of Thomas Bolle. Their eyes met, and his were full of fear.
Altogether, great and small, there must have been nearly a thousand of these erections, piping, hooting, bawling and gabbling in that great space, each with its crowd of excited listeners, the majority of them men dressed in blue canvas.
Talbot slid his closed book into his satchel. Have I heard all? Stephen asked. Yes, sir. Hockey at ten, sir. Half day, sir. Thursday. Who can answer a riddle? Stephen asked. They bundled their books away, pencils clacking, pages rustling. Crowding together they strapped and buckled their satchels, all gabbling gaily: A riddle, sir? Ask me, sir. O, ask me, sir. A hard one, sir.
"Yes certainly. Stop gabbling. Call the palace." He made the call. "Now, then, call Clarence." "Clarence who?" "Never mind Clarence who. Say you want Clarence; you'll get an answer." He did so. We waited five nerve-straining minutes ten minutes how long it did seem! and then came a click that was as familiar to me as a human voice; for Clarence had been my own pupil. "Now, my lad, vacate!
They were climbing the rocks when, having passed a deep fissure, they saw before them a vast array of strange-looking birds perched on the crags above their heads. "Come, Willy," cried the doctor, "we must have some of these fellows at once." Directly they were seen, the birds set up a loud concert of squeaking, squalling, and gabbling.
The choice collection of memories that I have stored away in my mind, memories of boarding-houses! The landladies' faces the assorted stenches the dark hallways the gabbling, quarreling, filthy, beer-carrying tenants! Oh, I wring my hands and something clutches me in my heart! Let me go! Let me go!
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