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"I won't even try to describe the scene that occurred between Margaret Louise and me. She cried and she lied, and she accused me of trying to curry favor with Stevie, and Stevie of being a backbiter, and she argued and argued about all kinds of things but the truth, and when I tried to pin her down to it, she ducked and crawled and sidestepped in a way that was dreadful.
Then you are, very probably, conscious you deserve it for my part, I shall only suppose myself ill-spoken of, when I am conscious I deserve it." "Enter Servant. "Ser. Mrs. Candor. "Mar. Well, I'll leave you. "Lady S. No, no, you have no reason to avoid her, she is good nature itself. "Mar. Yes, with an artful affectation of candor, she does more injury than the worst backbiter of them all."
She founded a hospice the Marie Therese Infirmary visited the poor, succoured the sick, superintended creches, gave alms and prayed; at the same time she was harsh towards her husband, her relatives, her friends, and her servants, and was sour-tempered, stern, prudish, and a backbiter. God on high will take these things into account.
I did tell him that as a friend I had spoke of it to Sir W. Pen and desired him to take a time to tell him of it, and not as a backbiter, with which he was satisfied, but I find that Sir W. Pen has played the knave with me, and not told it from me as a friend, but in a bad sense.
'So please you, Sir, growled the first in his throat, 'here stands Christopher Kitson of Barrowbridge, ready to avouch himself a true man, and prove in yonder fellow's teeth that it was not a broken-kneed beast that I sent up for a heriard to my Lord Archbishop when my father died; but that he of Easingwold is a black slanderer and backbiter.
"Whether tomorrow brings victory or defeat, the glory of our Russian arms is secure. Except your Kutuzov, there is not a single Russian in command of a column! The commanders are: Herr General Wimpfen, le Comte de Langeron, le Prince de Lichtenstein, le Prince, de Hohenlohe, and finally Prishprish, and so on like all those Polish names." "Be quiet, backbiter!" said Dolgorukov.
I am almost sure, Heavy, that my scenario will appear under the trademark of some other producing manager than Mr. Hammond." "Oh! How mean!" "Well, a thief is almost the meanest person there is in the world, don't you think so? Except a backbiter. And anybody mean enough to steal my scenario must be mean enough to try to make use of it." "Oh, dear! Ow-oo-ooo! Scuse me, Ruth.
Never listen to a backbiter, detractor, or slanderer it is sinful. Another way of injuring your neighbor is revealing the secrets he has confided to you. You will tell one friend perhaps and caution him not to repeat it to another; but if you cannot keep the secret yourself, how can you expect others to keep it?
Nicknames are abominable, and are never allowed in good society. Call people and things by their right names, and avoid affectations of all kinds. If your friends become the subject of conversation, never compare one with another, or mention the vices of one to add to the lustre of virtue of the other. Find something pleasant to say of each, that you may not earn the reputation of a backbiter.
In her ears rang Agnes's words: "Henry told me, love, he wouldn't insult me by repeating what your husband said of me. Oh, Mary, isn't it dreadful? And when I liked him so as a doctor!" She now repeated them aloud. This was too much for Mahony. He blazed up. "The confounded mischiefmonger the backbiter! Well, if you will have it, wife, here you are ... here's the truth.
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