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On the contrary, one finds there a rather significant spirit, a gaiety, care-free, loquacious and, at times, ironical. Unimportant people tell pleasant things about themselves or others. All these men are a trifle debauched, talky, futile, and their companions are flighty, intriguing little women who chatter incessantly. Everything begins and ends with a laugh.
Then her hazel eyes brightened suddenly, and she added, "They ought to call you 'Talky' Dexter, instead of 'Walky', I believe." "'Talkworthy Dexter', eh?" he grinned. "I'm not sure that you do always talk worthy," she told him, shaking a serious head. "You're very apt to say things to 'stir folks all up, as my Aunt says. Oh, yes, you do! You know you do, Mr. Dexter."
Some days he's been just as he was when I first came this time real talky and folksy, and as if he liked to be with us. Then for whole days at a time he'd be more as he used to stern, and stirring his coffee when there isn't any coffee there; and staying all the evening and half the night out in his observatory.
"The King," what all mortals note, as they do the heavenly omens, "is somewhat talky; speaks sometimes with the Dutch Ambassador, sometimes with the Pope's Nuncio, who seems a jocose kind of gentleman; sometimes with different French Lords, and at last with the Cardinal Fleury also, to whom, however, he does not look particularly gracious," not particularly this time.
On this he turned round to us, and said, "Talky Inglis?" I nodded. "Where you come from?" he asked, pretty quickly. I told him we had been wrecked at no great distance, and had been floated away from the place. After I had put my explanation in several different ways, he seemed to understand me.
The boots were for the boys, but Mrs. Blount did the buying and it was a long and talky process. At last, however, the youngsters were fitted and clumped proudly away, bearing their leather shoes in their hands. It was a dry evening, but to separate the twins from those rubber boots would have been next door to an impossibility.
I asked, thinking perhaps that these were the only words he could speak. "Yes, massa; him talky English, him serve board English ship." I inquired his name. He told me it was Aboh. I found, however, that although he might understand me, his vocabulary was very limited.
Jed was speechless. Babbitt, looking like a triumphantly vicious Bantam rooster, crowed on. "You don't seem to be quite so sassy and talky as you was when I first came in, Shavin's," he sneered. "Guess likely YOU ain't feelin' well now . . . eh? Do you remember what I told you last time I was in this shop? I told you I'd pay my debts to you and Sam Hunniwell if I waited fifty year.
Massa Walter, dare are many pirate ships out in dese parts; and de last place we touch at, I know Ali talky wid some black fellows, and me tink he told dem to follow de ship, and dat he will help to let dem come on board and take her." "But why did you not tell Mr Thudicumb or the captain this?" I said. "Dey tink I fond of finding mares' nests," he answered.
Devant an' a party is there. Must be quite gay an' altered on the mainland." Janet's face clouded. "Cap'n Daddy," she faltered, "I'm going to tell you something else." "Yer considerable talky, it seems t' me." Billy eyed the girl. "Cap'n Billy, have you ever wondered why I talk better than most of the others at the Station?"
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