He knew that Miss Watkin and her sister were talking talk to friends , and it seemed to him -- he was nine years old -- that if he went in they would be sorry for him .

She was with a fair young man and they stood talking talk together in low strange voices .

The first man who came come in was a large officer she had once seen see talking talk to her father .

“ I passed pass two Johnnies in the street to-day talking talk about some one called Jane Finn .

He disappeared disappear within his room , still talking talk .

The other man , who stood talking talk to Sir Henry , was stout and dark , and of quite a different cut .

They had been talking talk about 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 whispered whisper tone had latterly become more drowsy drowsy ; and Margaret , after a pause pause of a few minutes , found find , as she fancied , that in spite of the buzz buzz in the next room , Edith had rolled roll herself up into a soft ball of muslin and ribbon , and silken curls , and gone off into a peaceful little after-dinner nap nap .

Her aunt Shaw was talking talk to the five or six ladies who had been dining dining there , and whose husbands were still in the dining-room .

And yet , only this afternoon , talking talk over the whole matter she said say to me : " Once I tried try to have a lover but I was so sick at the heart , so utterly worn out that I had to send send him away . "

As for me , I was hungry , and contented content myself with silently demolishing demolish the tea , ham , and toast , while my mother and sister went on talking talk , and continued to discuss discuss the apparent or non-apparent circumstances , and probable or improbable history of the mysterious lady ; but I must confess confess that , after my brother ’s misadventure misadventure , I once or twice raised raise the cup to my lips , and put put it down again without daring to taste the contents , lest I should injure my dignity by a similar explosion explosion .

And they nestled nestle together amid the big black roots of the oak , laughing laugh and talking talk while they ate eat .

There was nothing else to do , so Alice soon began talking talk again .