Geissler himself had no troubles that could be seen; he grew talkative at once, looked out over the fields and nodded.

Sometimes he was capable of being the merriest and most talkative of the company, but this was rather in his consular than in his imperial days.

" Mr. Stanmore's language at the luncheon-table, it is needless to say, was far less emphatic than that which relieved his feelings in soliloquy; nor was he to-day quite so talkative as usual.

A reticent, reserved man by temperament and habit, and with both temperament and habit confirmed by his long exile on the cattle ranges, he had grown rather less than more talkative after his latest plunge into public life; and even Miss Van Brock confessed that she found him impossible on the social side.

"I do not think I have been any less talkative than you.

With guile he strove to be talkative about matters of no consequence.

Our new fellow, that studies physick, very talkative toward twelve.

" She was very talkative for a moment; subconscious excitement was the cause.

Such men having little to do become credulous and talkative from indolence; and from the same cause, and other predisposing causes by which it is probable that such men may have been affected, they are prone to superstition.

She had grown talkative in the years she had been away, and was always ready to gossip with any one.

Maybe I'm too talkative on the subject, but the way I feel about him, I might discuss him forever, an' then they'd be thess a little sweetness left over thet I couldn't put into words about him.