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Updated: May 14, 2025
He occasionally spent an evening at our house, passing it in polemical discussion, revising the prayers and exhortations which he made at conference meetings. The good man was a little vain of having the formulas of his creed at his tongue's end.
"He didn't murder him," I said. Silver Tongue's jaw fell. He looked at us quite overcome. For a minute he couldn't say a word. "Oh, but he deed!" he said at last. "It was Tautala that killed him," I said, indicating the young man we had brought from Mulinu'u, "and it turns out he sold your relation's head to To'oto'o for seven dollars and a music box."
Like birds who fly abroad to forage for grain, and bring it home in the beak, without tasting it themselves, to feed their young; so our pedants go picking knowledge here and there, out of books, and hold it at the tongue's end, only to spit it out and distribute it abroad.
That's what did for him. Some fool quarrel about a book it was, and the man, a frequenter of the shop, a scholar, a scientist, professor at the university, accused Rutherford of lying. Rutherford had a heavy brass paper-cutter in his hand. The professor had a nasty tongue in his head. Well, a tongue's no match for a paper-cutter.
"His tongue's set wagging!" he said savagely, "you thought, maybe, I said all that in earnest. Never fear!" "But, you strange fellow!" Gavrilo began, overawed again "Was I speaking of you? Why, there's lots like you! Ah, what a lot of unlucky people among the people! Wanderers " "Take the oars, you sea-calf!"
"This is the last meal we shall take hereabouts," said their cook, as they plied their knives and forks beneath the trees, "so here is a toast to our adventures, and to all the game we have killed." They drained their glasses in drinking this, after which Bearwarden regaled them with the latest concert-hall song which he had at his tongue's end.
She did not like to read, however, and told Betty that it was never anything but a task, except to study geography, and she only had one old geography, fairly worn to pieces, which she knew by heart, with all its lists of towns and countries and rivers, the productions and boundaries and capitals and climatic conditions and wild animals were at her tongue's end for anybody who cared to hear them.
"Lord! noble sir," said Cuddie, "an auld wife's tongue's but a feckless matter to mak sic a fash about. Neither my father nor me ever minded muckle what our mither said." "Hold your peace, my lad, while you are well," said Bothwell; "I promise you I think you are slyer than you would like to be supposed.
Aminadab, blunt though he was, and fonder of pork than poetry, and of scriptural quotations which he had always at his tongue's end for conclaves of weavers than impassioned sentiments, rising at the inspiring touch of this strange world's endless and ever-occurring occasions, was impressed.
"Nothing, I trow and trust, that arraigns the poor lady's honour, though much that may scoff at her simple faith in a nature so vain and fickle. 'The tongue's not steel, yet it cuts, as the proverb saith of the slanderer." "No! scandal spares her virtue as woman, to run down her cunning as witch! They say that Hastings hath not prevailed, nor sought to prevail, that he is spell-bound.
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