Mrs. Pontellier talkedtalkabout her father 's Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegrass country .
We talkedtalkit all over with Mr. Weston last night .
At supper they talkedtalkwith him perfunctorily , and covertly sneeredsneerbecause he sprinkledsprinklehis food liberally with cayenne and his speech with Spanish words pronouncedpronouncewith soft , slurredslurvowels that made them sound unfamiliar , and against which his English contrasted sharply with its crisp , American enunciation .
He knew that Miss Watkin and her sister were talkingtalkto friends , and it seemed to him -- he was nine years old -- that if he went in they would be sorry for him .
As for me , I was hungry , and contentedcontentmyself with silently demolishingdemolishthe tea , ham , and toast , while my mother and sister went on talkingtalk, and continued to discussdiscussthe apparent or non-apparent circumstances , and probable or improbable history of the mysterious lady ; but I must confessconfessthat , after my brother ’s misadventuremisadventure, I once or twice raisedraisethe cup to my lips , and putputit down again without daring to taste the contents , lest I should injure my dignity by a similar explosionexplosion.
They were men 's footsteps , and the men enteredenterthe bungalow and talkedtalkin low voices .
He talkedtalkof sales of clothing , his travels , Chicago , and the amusements of that city .
Her aunt Shaw was talkingtalkto the five or six ladies who had been diningdiningthere , and whose husbands were still in the dining-room .
She was with a fair young man and they stood talkingtalktogether in low strange voices .
But by this time we had all long ceasedceaseto pay any particular notice to the song ; it was new , that night , to nobody but Dr. Livesey , and on him I observedobserveit did not produce an agreeable effect , for he lookedlookup for a moment quite angrily before he went on with his talktalkto old Taylor , the gardener , on a new cure for the rheumatics .
The other man , who stood talkingtalkto Sir Henry , was stout and dark , and of quite a different cut .
“ I passedpasstwo Johnnies in the street to-day talkingtalkabout some one called Jane Finn .
Mrs. Pontellier talkedtalka little about herself for the same reason .
And yet , only this afternoon , talkingtalkover the whole matter she saidsayto me : " Once I triedtryto have a lover but I was so sick at the heart , so utterly worn out that I had to sendsendhim away . "
Mr. Hilbery here interposedinterposeso far as Denham was concerned , and talkedtalka great deal of sense about the solicitors ’ profession , and the changes which he had seen in his lifetime .
They had been talkingtalkabout wedding dresses , and wedding ceremonies ; and Captain Lennox , and what he had told Edith about her future life at Corfu , where his regiment was stationed ; and the difficulty of keeping a piano in good tune ( a difficulty which Edith seemed to consider as one of the most formidable that could befall her in her married life ) , and what gowns she should want in the visits to Scotland , which would immediately succeed her marriage ; but the whisperedwhispertone had latterly become more drowsydrowsy; and Margaret , after a pausepauseof a few minutes , foundfind, as she fancied , that in spite of the buzzbuzzin the next room , Edith had rolledrollherself up into a soft ball of muslin and ribbon , and silken curls , and gone off into a peaceful little after-dinner napnap.