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Unfortunately, I do not know with whom I am conversing." "Quite easily remedied. I am Joe Hogan, commonly called 'Red' Hogan. The moniker means nothing to you." "I never heard it before." "I thought not, which merely proves you are not a 'fly-cop, only a measly busy-body sticking your nose into some one else's business.
"Confound thee, thou marplot, thou busy-body of the wood," muttered the Goodman to himself as he listened. "Wert thou but a human gossip, I 'd set thee in the stocks till thou hadst learned to hold thine evil tongue!" But the blue jay only kept up his squawking, passing the news on to his brethren until the forest rang with word of their approach.
'I don't know about that, Miss Wren retorted; 'but you had better by half set up a pen-wiper, and turn industrious, and use it. 'Why, if we were all as industrious as you, little Busy-Body, we should begin to work as soon as we could crawl, and there would be a bad thing! 'Do you mean, returned the little creature, with a flush suffusing her face, 'bad for your backs and your legs?
She neither patronised nor scolded, and it was impossible to take her in. But when dealing with the affairs of those of her neighbours, who were well-to-do, and who regarded themselves as belonging to her own class, it was quite another matter. With regard to them and their affairs she was what they often angrily accused her of being a busy-body and even a mischief-maker.
Miss Cadman was a woman of active mind, something of a busy-body dogmatic, punctilious in her claims to respect, proud of the acknowledgment by her acquaintances that she was not as other tradespeople; her chief weakness was a fanatical ecclesiasticism, the common blight of English womanhood.
"Miss Vincent, had you ever this book in your hand? speak in a moment yes, or no: I want no other word!" "No, ma'am; I never had the book in my hand, I can declare with truth." "Miss Bruce, is this your work? for I know you are a little busy-body." "O no, ma'am! I would not blot any lady's book for the world." Mrs.
I was popular, and got along with women well; but I tell you honestly I loved my wife all the time; so that when a Christian busy-body poured into her ears some self-made scandal, it was a brutal, awful lie brutal and awful, for she had never known jealousy; it did not belong to her old social creed.
I'd like to think the master wouldn't be troubled wid them." "I'm afraid he'll have to hear them, Patsy. Sir Felix was obliged to issue a summons. It might have been worse if Sir Felix had not been a friend." "The divil shweep that man, Fury," said Patsy with ferocity. "If he hadn't been a busy-body an' stirrer-up of trouble, he'd have drowned that villain in a bog-hole."
Well! you can tell that busy-body everyone from me that before the year is out Kapus Elsa will be tokened to me, and that when Andor comes back from having marched and drilled and paced the barrack-yard he will find that Kapus Elsa is Kapus no longer, but Erös, the wife of Erös Béla, the mother of his first-born.
To counteract this Franklin published in Bradford's paper, "The Mercury," a series of essays after the manner of Addison, to which he subscribed the name "Busy-Body." Other members of the Junto contributed to the series; and Keimer, being stung by their satire, replied with coarse abuse, and also with attempted imitation.
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