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I do not assert that I have never heard gossip from men; but it has always been from the men that spend their lives in Club windows, never from men that had some better way of filling their time. From my husband I have never heard a scurrilous word of any one, and he has a temper of his own, too.
I recall one long and scurrilous article by a Member of Parliament, urging rebellious natives in South Africa to take heart of grace and pursue with ever-increasing vigour their attacks upon the small and isolated white populace which upheld British rule in that part of the Continent.
The men and women women especially who gossiped and lied about her, who sent abominable paragraphs to scurrilous papers he had one now in his pocket which had reached him at the House from an anonymous correspondent spoke out of their own vile experience, judged her by their own standards. His mother, at any rate he proudly thought ought to know better than to be misled by them for a moment.
One amongst many anecdotes of a similar kind may be cited to show that the character was by no means exaggerated. A Manchester warehouseman published an exceedingly scurrilous pamphlet against the firm of Grant Brothers, holding up the elder partner to ridicule as "Billy Button."
Fantom believed, not in proportion to the strength of the evidence, but to the impudence of the assertion. The trampling on holy ground with dirty shoes, the smearing the sanctuary with filth and mire, the calling prophets and apostles by the most scurrilous names was new, and dashing, and dazzling. Mr.
Of course this story was made up out of whole cloth. 'Gene Mallows afterward informed me that the big literary club in San Francisco that this hack belonged to had seriously considered disciplining him by expulsion for his unethical behaviour toward a fellow-writer. But I maintain that it was good that he penned the scurrilous article.
And my principal reason for taking the hounds two years ago was, I do believe, to have something to do in the winter which required no thought, and to have an excuse for falling asleep after dinner, instead of arguing with Jane about her scurrilous religious newspapers-There is a great gulf opening, I see, between me and her- And as I can't bridge it over I may as well forget it. Pah!
In Ambrakia once Pyrrhus was advised to banish a man who abused him in scurrilous terms. He answered, "I had rather he remained where he is and abused me there, than that he should wander through all the world doing so." Once some youths spoke ill of him over their wine, and being detected were asked by him whether they had used such words of him.
What will your Democratic Dilke, or Ouvrier Odger who may, in this "speech- gagged," "oppressed" country, heap scurrilous abuse on royalty and overhaul the washing bills of her Majesty without let or hindrance say, for the "liberty of speech" on the other side; where, if they were to utter a word in favour of the conquered Confederates, amongst a certain school of "black republicans," they would run the risk of having a revolver bullet in their epigastric region before they knew where they were?
Somebody must have reported to the editor of the Arbeiter Zeitung that at one time I had been a member of the union myself, for that weekly published a scurrilous paragraph, branding me as a traitor
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