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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Tell me about the country it's very beautiful, isn't it?" "Yes, very beautiful." "And the people?" "If you don't marry Sim Gage they'll tar and feather you. If you do, they'll back-bite and hate you. If you get in trouble they'll work their fingers to the bone to take care of you." "There was another thing," she resumed irrelevantly, "I thought it was a sacrifice, my coming out here to work.
The little half angry, half weary frown drew her eyebrows together, and she sat for a minute restlessly tapping her slippered foot upon the floor. "Oh, why do women lie and cheat and back-bite and strangle the little souls within them to please men. Your amusements are built on our long boredom."
I suppose that people there live dull and simple lives enough, buy and sell, gossip and back-bite, wed and die; but for the pilgrim it seems an enchanted place, where there can be no care or sorrow, nothing hard, or unlovely, or unclean, but a sort of fairy-land, where men seem to be living the true and beautiful life of the soul, of which we are always in search, but which seems to be so strangely hidden away.
Truly we do not like people to think the worst of us and it is not fulfilling the law of love to think the worst of them. Do you not know that if we wish to dwell in his tabernacle we are not to entertain a reproach against our neighbor, nor to back-bite with our lips and I do not think there is a sin which more easily besets society than this."
But to bite and for the most part, if not almost always, to back-bite your friends' supposed enemies often when they have done nothing adverse to those friends on the particular occasion is the act at the best of an intempestively officious person, at the worst of a cur.
Travers is such a nice man," went on Dorothy, "I think Tavia is exactly like him." "And Jack is like his mother. But we musn't back-bite," seeing the look of reproach on Dorothy's face. "I hope you have a jolly good time at the picnic." One hour later the girls of Dalton school were crowded around Dorothy, asking all kinds of well-meant questions concerning her health.
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