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Updated: May 11, 2025
For her, memory was an angel of wrath, driving her into the hideous Golgotha of the past, where bloody spectres gibbered; the present was a loathsome death in life, the future a nameless torturing horror.
He was too occupied with his own vision, and vividly burned before him the sordid barrenness of a poor-house ward, where an ancient, very like what he himself would become, maundered and gibbered and drooled for a crumb of tobacco for his old clay pipe, and where, of all horrors, no sip of beer ever obtained, much less six quarts of it.
Near by a wounded man had been lying quietly on a table when all at once he gave a yell and, before we could rush to the spot, he plunged head foremost and crashed down on to the floor. We picked him up, but his mind seemed too confused to realize what had happened. He did not struggle any more, but gibbered and whimpered piteously.
But he remembered nothing of the night how the men picketed the town; how he sat up with them along with the other boys; how the women, under his mother's direction and Miss Lucy's, cared for the wounded man, who lapsed into delirium as the night wore on, and gibbered of liberty and freedom as another man would go over his accounts in his dreams.
And at that instant I knew the first ridiculous pang of jealousy; but I laughed it away and retorted: "It was an ancient Chinese philosopher who is first recorded as having said, what doubtlessly the cave men before him gibbered, namely, that a woman pursues a man by fluttering away in advance of him." "Wretch!" she cried. "I never fluttered. When did I ever flutter!"
"Then we had to ask him how every other word was spelt, of course, and he gibbered a lot more. It was what you might call a final exhibition a last attack a giddy par-ergon." "But o' course he was blind squiffy when he wrote the paper. I hope you explained that?" said Stalky. "Oh, yes. I told Tulke so. I said an immoral prefect an' a drunken house-master were legitimate inferences.
Then I would turn aside into some chapel, and even there, such was my disturbance, it seemed that the preacher gibbered "Big Thinks," even as the Ape-man had done; or into some library, and there the intent faces over the books seemed but patient creatures waiting for prey.
Chowbok rolled the bales rapidly into their place, and stood before me shuddering as in great fear; horror was written upon his face this time quite involuntarily as though the natural panic of one who had committed an awful crime against unknown and superhuman agencies. He nodded his head and gibbered, and pointed repeatedly to the mountains.
Biddy stood and gibbered. There was that in her mistress's numb acquiescence that terrified her. "Sure, you'll kill her, Sir Eustace!" she gasped. He made a compelling gesture. "You had better do as I say. If I want your help or advice I'll let you know. Do as I say! Do you hear me, Biddy?"
The wind, blowing in gusts through the open door, inflated her gray shawl and the skirt of her dressing-gown, while, with each flutter of her garments, the grotesque shadow on the white wall danced and gibbered behind her.
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