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Updated: May 16, 2025
I talked as all conventional women talk, of the weather, of our minimum and maximum speed, of the newspaper 'sensations' and vulgarities that were served up to us whenever we called at a port for the mails, of the fish that frequented such and such waters, of sport, of this and that millionaire whose highland castle or shooting-box was crammed with the 'elite' whose delight is to kill innocent birds and animals, of the latest fool-flyers in aeroplanes, in short, no fashionable jabberer of social inanities could have beaten me in what average persons call 'common-sense talk, talk which resulted after a while in the usual vagueness of attention accompanied by smothered yawning.
"Eh, what?" said the Abbot, "a bodle for thy ill-set tongue, false loon, dost think I did not hear him sing his fair and seemly orisons? I tell thee, rude out-land jabberer, that I am a Douglas, and have ears better than those of any Frenchman that ever breathed.
"Then we may as well sit down and await developments," she said a moment later, as they observed the whole band go face downward on the sand again all save the chief. The white people seated themselves on the ledge and watched the impassioned jabberer.
"They say he always was a jabberer in the composing-room, and he has jabbered himself right out of it and into a pretty good thing. He didn't have much to say about the crimes of capital when he was set up to second the toast of 'Railton and Hockes' at the beanfeast." "Toast and butter, toast and butter," said Wimp, genially. "I shouldn't blame a man for serving the two together, Mr. Cantercot."
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