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You just like what I'd have liked, and what all women ever I heard tell on liked in their hearts, though maybe they wouldna own up till it, from thon wench, that might have been a gran' lady, too, for a' I ken, who made the great silly gaby of a Samson lie still while she clipped the seven locks off of his head.
"I think Mrs. Pill is very wise. I hope she and Thomas will do well. By the way, what do you think of Mr. Barnes?" Susan did not leave him long in doubt as to her opinion. "I think he is a stupid fool," she said, "and it's a good thing Mrs. Pill is going to marry him. He was guided by Miss Loach all his life, and now she's dead, he goes about like a gaby.
"And a noodle and a jolt-head; you're a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you're a Hatter!" I shrieked the last epithet. "Heavens!" he cried, "A Hatter! Am I as bad as that?" "Oh, come now," I said, closing the Thesaurus with a bang. "Have some regard for my position, won't you?" I had resolved to appeal to his better nature.
Now, don't stand laughing there like a great gaby, but come and shake hands. What on earth do you see to laugh at in me?" "Nothing, my cousin Poll, nothing," he replied. "You know that is my way of expressing approval. And you look so pretty standing there in the shade, that I would break any man's neck who didn't applaud. Shake hands, says you, I'll shake hands with a vengeance."
And to think that like a great gaby he had been shoved off to the sea by one term of endearment, and to a place, too, where there was neither shade nor shadows, simply miles and miles of bright monotonous sea, three dusty cornflowers, two bedraggled poppies and the sun all around you. Tanned, indeed! Why his face would be all blisters and his eyes bloodshot. The insensitiveness of women!
To which Fanny made the short answer, 'That gaby. 'Who? said Little Dorrit. Young Sparkler. She lowered the window on her side, and, leaning back and resting her elbow on it negligently, fanned herself with a rich Spanish fan of black and gold.
"What was the difference between the marine officer and Mr Phillott that occurred this morning?" "Nothing at all in itself the marine officer is a bit of a gaby, and takes offence where none is meant. Mr Phillott has a foul tongue, but he has a good heart." "What a pity it is!"
Whenever I want to make myself uncommonly agreeable to old Maria, I just say a few words of parly voo to her. She knows what I mean." "Have you abused her to your cousin, Harry Warrington?" asked Madame de Bernstein. "Well I know she is always abusing me and I have said my mind about her," said Will. "Oh, you idiot!" cried the old lady. "Who but a gaby ever spoke ill of a woman to her sweetheart?
There is Doria at Genoa, and Gaby Deslys at Marseille; that may well exhaust the list. Ah, and half-way through, a couple of generals, born at Nice. It is really an instructive phenomenon, and one that should appeal to students of Buckle this relative dearth of every form of human genius in one of the most favoured regions of the globe.
Since I saw you I made acquaintance with a girl, a Corsican, I met when I came to Paris." "Men who are such fools as to love a woman," cried Jacques Collin, "always come to grief that way. They are tigers on the loose, tigers who blab and look at themselves in the glass. You were a gaby." "But " "Well, what good did she do you that curse of a moll?"
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