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For when we were with you, this we enjoined you, that if a man would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some among you who walk disorderly, doing no work, but being busy-bodies. Now such we command, and conjure, by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they labour, and eat their own bread. But ye, brethren, be not weary of well doing.
"I don't blame Eleanor Savelli for calling you busy-bodies," she said. "And I shall be infinitely obliged to you if you will in future look to your own affairs and stop criticizing me." With these words she rushed from the room, seized her wraps and was out on the street before any of the remaining girls had fully comprehended what had happened.
There is a day of reckoning coming to you, young woman, and to these other meddlers here whether they are playing politics or meddling just because they are old-maidish busy-bodies." She was facing the politician with burning cheeks. "You," she scorned, "belong to an age that is passing away. You cannot understand these people like Miss Kendall, like Mr.
I make you out, you'll say for I see you coming one of those horrible benevolent busy-bodies who are the worst of the class, but you've only to think a little if I may go so far to see that no 'making' at all is required. You've only one link with the Brooks, but that link is golden. How can we, all of us, by this time, not have grasped and admired the beauty of your feeling for Lady Julia?
Whether or not the clerical advisers winced under the President's irony, at least they must have appreciated the earnestness and sincerity with which he considered the subject. All this while that newspaper writers, religious teachers, members of Congress, and political busy-bodies generally were tirelessly enlightening Mr.
He quotes the reply of one pushed by the inquiry, what God was doing before creation: “He was making a hell for inquisitive busy-bodies.” Alta spectantibus gehennas parabat. See also, Dr. Fr. Windischmann, Die Ursagen der Arischen Völker, pp. 4-10. It is probable that in very ancient Semitic tradition Adam was represented as the survivor of a flood anterior to that of Noah.
I should never have done so, from the simple fact of his success. I am not so ignoble as that, my dear colonel. Bitter as was my disappointment, I could have bowed to the fiat pardoned the young lady and offered my hand to dear George; but there were our 'friends, the busy-bodies and talebearers.
"But why, I'd have said she was fond of you, Mr. Herrick. Miss Mullett and I were talking it over just the other day. Old busy-bodies, I suppose you'd call us. But what did she say if that isn't an impertinent question, sir." "Well, it seems that there's some one else." "Never!" "Yes. I don't know why there shouldn't be."
"I wish then there were more busy-bodies of your sort. Tell me, could you recognize the men?" "Not with any assurance. Neither could I recognize the occupants of the house," she added. "The truth is, though you may doubt, that I scarcely notice them; but one can't see a to-let-unfurnished sign on a house opposite for six months, without remarking its sudden disappearance from the landscape."
Hearing also the derisive speeches of busy-bodies who said, 'Fie upon the indigent Drona, who strives not to earn wealth, whose son drinking water mixed with powdered rice mistaketh it for milk and danceth with joy, saying, 'I have taken milk, I have taken milk! I was quite beside myself.
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