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They were a part of the recollections of his childhood images painted upon his heart, impressions made in his soft and pitying nature; and the "besom of societarian reformation," legislating busybodies, and tinkers of the general welfare, were sweeping them away, with all their humanizing influences, their deep lessons of dire adversity and gentle charity.
No less than three of the Lady Trustees of my church have asked me who and what these people are and whence they came." "The Lady Trustees are a pack of old busybodies," growled his sister. Her brother raised his finger warningly. "Jane, do you know you are uttering a blasphemy? These Rossmore people have been here two weeks They have visited no one, no one visits them.
A system of espionage, whisperings, backbitings, and miserable tittle-tattle, sometimes of the most slanderous or the most ridiculous kind, was set going all over Oxford. Never in Oxford, before or since, were busybodies more truculent or more unscrupulous. Difficulties arose between Heads of Colleges and their tutors.
"Thank you," he said; "but it is not very likely " "Don't say you are giving up Orders, dear Mr. Storm, or perhaps that you are only leaving our church in order to unite yourself to another. Ah! have I touched on a tender point? You must not be surprised that rumours have been rife. We can not silence the tongues of busybodies and mischief-makers, you know.
If you had 'em you wouldn't need rescuin'. Correct?" "You're telling it," Rick replied courteously. "Yep. Also, you're from Scarlet Lake, and you're nosy. Day before yesterday you got nosy at Careless Mesa and nearly got pinked. Are you busybodies, or have you got a right to snoop?" Rick stared at the man. He had a strong suspicion they were looking at the mysterious rifleman.
The tendency of the slave-owner is always toward profligacy and conspicuous waste. To do away with slavery was out of the question that was a matter of time and education the ruler can never afford to get much in advance of his people. The court was infected with parasites in the way of informers and busybodies who knew no way to thrive except through intrigue.
But all the same nearly everybody said it was a splendid idea: its originator was applauded as a public benefactor, and the pettifogging busybodies who amused themselves with what they were pleased to term 'charitable work' went into imbecile ecstasies over him. The OBS One of the most important agencies for the relief of distress was the Organized Benevolence Society.
His litter had barely swung down the road from the villa before Cassandra was knocking at her mistress's chamber door. "Io! domina," was her joyful exclamation, "I think I have got every eavesdropper out of the way. Ahenobarbus is off for Puteoli. I have cooked up a story to keep the freedmen and other busybodies off. You have a desperate headache, and cannot leave the room, nor see any one.
To those who have lived in the abnormal glamour of city life, absolute quiet is a kind of new excitement. Warrington found that he was a bit stiff from the long ride. Patty, however, rode nearly every day; so she was but slightly fatigued. Nevertheless, she was conscious of not wanting to dress for the tea. She wanted to meet the old busybodies in the open; she wasn't afraid.
After many months there arrived in the neighborhood one Denton Offut, one of those scheming, talkative, evanescent busybodies who skim vaguely over new territories. This adventurer had a cargo of hogs, pork, and corn, which he wanted to send to New Orleans, and the engagement fell to Lincoln and two comrades at the wage of fifty cents per day and a bonus of $60 for the three.
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