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The old man got very cross as he at last perceived the missing lad conversing with the proprietor of a pie-stall, having evidently been doing a little jawing with him. "Toto," he called, "Toto, come here." Toto Chupin heard him, for he looked round, but he did not move, for he was certainly much interested in the conversation he was carrying on.
Ouch! says he, as that foot touched the ground. 'Perhaps you'd better pick me up and carry me bodily. "So I did it, the old housekeeper following us with an armful of things and jawing the both of us him for a fool and me for a villain. She was a strong-minded old lady, and I wish I could remember some of her talk it was great. "We went around and got the doctor. "'Hoo! says he.
"If I hadn't found you here, I might have only suspected; but now that I've found you, I do not merely believe, but know that you are a " "Confound you! if you begin your infernal abuse again, I'll blow your brains out! I haven't got your talent for scolding. If you want to settle accounts with me, come along like a man, and don't stand here jawing like a fishwife."
"No," said Reggie with firmness; "that is really more than I could stick. I told you truth or untruth, the mind keeps on seeing pictures. Pack up your things. Call a coolie. The evening walk down to Nikko will do you more good than my jawing. Good-bye." An unreal handshake and he was gone.
"Now, don't you two be jawing away about young Square-toes," struck in Gower. "He's no end of a sucking wiseacre, I dare say; but we've no time to lose, and I've got the fives court at half-past nine." "I say, Gower," said Tom appealingly, "be a good fellow, and let's try if we can't get on without the crib." "What! in this chorus? Why, we shan't get through ten lines."
The crowd collected in this street, the sleighs that were whirling past, filled with young men and maidens, the incessant jingling of bells, the spluttering and jawing in Low Dutch, the hearty English oaths of serjeants and sutlers'-men and cooks of messes, the loud laughs of the blacks, and the beauty of the cold clear day, altogether produced some such effect on me, as I had experienced when I went to the theatre.
"He was jawing, you see," he continued when he came back, Henriot and his wife having kept silence meanwhile, "about direction being of importance in religious ceremonies, West and North symbolising certain powers, or something of the kind, why people turn to the East and all that sort of thing, and speaking of the whole Universe as if it had living forces tucked away in it that expressed themselves somehow when roused up.
"You can just shut up jawing," I answered, as I hunted round for my gown; "when I want you to criticize my friends I will tell you. Foster's worth about ten billion of you any day." I was very angry, but Ward only laughed and told me to hurry up unless I wanted the soup to be cold. "We are going to have a little roulette in my rooms to-night," he said, as we walked across the quad.
Geet... ep... thah BILL! Geet ep, Doll-ay!" and cracks his whip, and kisses with his mouth, and the horses dance and tug, and jump around and strain till the stone-boat slides on the grass, and then men climb on until the load gets so heavy that the team can't budge it. Then another team tries, and so on, the competitors jawing and jowering at each other with: "Ah, that ain't fair!
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