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I shall enclose Constantinople before you could arrange with the Jews, and have money enough to buy a feather for your cap. If this were less true, comes then the argument: How can you dispose of the properties in hand, and quiet the gossips in the Gabour's palace? 'Where are your horses? they will ask. What answer have you? 'Where your galley? Answer. 'Where your Mohammedan crew? Answer."
For conversation people collect in groups round shops, in the Souk, or in little squares near the mosques, where there are many stone benches for reclining on, or in some quiet dark nook and corner, where, when you expect to find no one, you fall foul of a retired circle of gossips, squatting down in utter darkness. These Saharan streets are veritable catacombs. 1st September.
But he was surprised when, the instant he stepped over the threshold, the gossips, who were busied with the dead body, stinted suddenly in their song, while one said to the others: "In God's name, who entered? That was a large gout of blood." "Not so," said another voice, "it is a drop of the liquid balm." "Nay, cummer, it was blood. Again I say, who entered the house even now?"
It is more than a setting for Emma and her intrigue; it belongs to the book integrally, much more so than the accidental lovers who fall in Emma's way. They are mere occasions and attractions for her fancy; the town and the curé and the apothecary and the other indigenous gossips need a sharper definition.
Grant, in spite of the judgment and sagacity on which he prided himself, had at various times in his career made mistakes mistakes in station management, mistakes about stock, mistakes about men, and last, but not least, mistakes about women; and it was to one of these mistakes that the gossips referred. When he was a young man working as Mr. Donohoe, and their family.
He next went into a house where an aged woman was confined to bed with rheumatism; but her gossips stopped him in the middle of the room, and would not let him approach her, for fear he should be her death.
Greyfield, permit me to offer you the love and protection of a husband, and stop these gossips' mouths." "You do not think he had premeditated this?" I asked. "I did not take it in then, but afterwards I saw it plainly enough.
Colney shall be confounded. Hereupon Victor hopped on to Fenellan's hint regarding the designs of Mrs. Burman. His Nataly might have to go through a short sharp term of scorching Godiva to the gossips. She would come out of it glorified. She would be reconciled with her family.
A certain vague awe stole over the gossips, however, when they heard that, whether rapid or non-rapid, 'Maryllia Van, as Sir Morton Pippitt persisted in calling her, was likely to be the future Duchess of Ormistoune.
The fashions, and social gossips, and fancy work and amusements would all be tabooed subjects there, I expect." "You do not know many people yet. I thank God there are thousands longing to serve Him. I think, dear, you must have a touch of dyspepsia this morning; your thoughts are so morbid." "Oh no, indeed; I am quite well. But shall we see any of those people you describe in New York?"
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