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Malicious Gossip's body was a blur in the dimness, and her low soft voice was like an overtone of the deep organ notes of the torrent. "The tale of the cave of Enamoa is not a legend," she said, "for it is more. It was a happening known to our grandfathers. There were two warriors who coveted a woman, and she was tapu to them. She was a taua vehine, a priestess of the old gods.
It's sickening the way he spends his time reading gossip and calling it history." "Gossip's like many common things, interesting when fossilized," squeaked a little, white-haired, pink-faced old gentleman, like an elderly cherub in dress-clothes. He had remained at the other end of the room because he did not care for pictures.
He exercises in it off and on all the week, at night, and sometimes in the middle of the day." Herbert rallied her for her gossip's credulity. "It's truth," she declared.
"My male tosspots have forgot the taste of my red liquor," he continued; "but what wet gossip's throat ever forgot what nipped it. Come, dame, and let us have a right hearty jorum of this inimitable drink." And, for want of better measure, he seized lustily a bicker that lay near him, and dashed a quantity of the liquor into it. "Ha! I forgot.
All this interested me very much, I confess. I have formed such a high opinion of her! And I thought it would interest you. 'I don't know what we any of us have to do with it, grumbled the Squire. The Rector drew himself up a little, resenting the implied rebuke. 'I hope I don't seem to you to be carrying gossip for gossip's sake, he said, rather indignantly.
Again, we have often entered dwellings where it seemed to be the study of the good, ambitious housewife to shut out all the light, and shut in of course, unconsciously all the death which comes of dampness and dark, only so that her carpets are kept bright and shining for some gossip's tongue.
For 'twas from that day he began to take it on. "I saw it myself. There was Daniel come home from other parts where his mother had kept him, out of gossip's way, bright as you please and knowing nothing wrong with the blood of the Kains. And so I say the sin lays on the loose-wagging tongue of Bickers, for from the day he let it out to Daniel, Daniel changed.
Newlyn women bobbed about their cottage doors with hum and stir, and every gossip's mouth was full of news at this entry. Doors and windows filled with curious heads and bright eyes; there was some laughter in the air; fishermen got up with sidelong looks from the old masts or low walls whereon, during hours of leisure, they sat in rows and smoked.
Gideon Ward's sister after the irascible Colonel had driven every other suitor away from that patient lady and then gave the Colonel his "everlasting comeuppance," and settled down in Smyrna as boss of the Ward household, that event nearly wore Gossip's tongue into ribbons. "I see'd it from a distance the part that happened in front of the toll-house," said Old Man Jordan.
Bert took up the book again and fingered it thoughtfully. "Could I get one if I wanted to?" he asked, presently. "Why, of course," answered Regie. "There are many more at Gossip's where I got this, I guess." Bert said no more; and the two boys soon began talking about something else. For some days thereafter Bert was in a very perplexed state of mind.
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