18.Women do have always his voice above the gabble voice that breathed an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
19.At her feet sat the grandfather of all the cats; and opposite her sat, on two benches, twelve or fourteen neat, rosy, chubby little children, learning their Chris-cross-row; and gabble enough they made about it.
20.The only serene corner had been established by peaceful West Indian Negroes, who built a marginal street with wooden houseson piles where they would sit in the doors at dusk singing melancholy hymns in their disordered gabble.