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Updated: April 30, 2025
Grief, he pointed out, and respect for the dead, were in no way better evidenced by such barbarous customs. Rumor had it that scandal's cruel tongue was responsible for this good woman's death. She was one of the many victims that go to unhappy graves in order that the monstrous appetite for gossip may be appeased.
His sudden disappearance seemed like a flight; it caused scandal's thousand tongues to wag remorselessly; but, although he left no word for her, Zuleika knew her command had sent him to Italy to clear his name and record in her eyes; she was firmly convinced that she would see him again, that he would return to Paris rehabilitated.
And, drawing her wrap around her with a little shudder, Lady Conway stalked majestically across the wide verandah of the Biskra Hotel. The two men left standing by the open French window that led into the hotel ballroom looked at each other and smiled. "Some peroration," said one with a marked American accent. "That's the way scandal's made, I guess." "Scandal be hanged!
"I am afraid we most of us enjoy our scandal, and for my part I always like to see a humbug catch it hot. But if the scandal's about a woman, and if it's an old scandal, and if she's a lonely woman, that quite alters the case, and in my opinion the author of it deserves all he gets."
After a description of the various poets of the day that deposit their offerings in Lady Millar's "Vase of Sentiment," the author thus proceeds: Or yield to Sentiment's insipid rule, By Taste, by Fancy, chac'd through Scandal's school? Ah no be Sheridan's the comic page, Or let me fly with Garrick from the stage.
'Lord, lord, what unwholesome scandal's this about the ghost of a respectable gentleman? said Mrs. Martin, who had entered from the sitting-room. 'Now, wait, ma'am. I don't say 'twere a low smell, mind ye.
One can interest one's self in the dramatic incidents in the lives of one's acquaintances without ventilating or vilifying their character. Gossip is capable of a more genial purpose than traducing people. Last night Lord L. was caught with Lady D.! . . . . . . . . "So strong, so swift, the monster there's no gagging: Cut scandal's head off, still the tongue is wagging."
I've seen smash-ups before now; but I never yet saw a marriage dissolved like a business partnership. Divorce without a lover? Why, it's it's as unnatural as getting drunk on lemonade." After this first explosion Mr. Dagonet also became silent; and Ralph perceived that what annoyed him most was the fact of the "scandal's" not being one in any gentlemanly sense of the word.
She felt helpless in the face of the detestable scandal which had reared itself upon a foundation of such innocent truth. "I wish Coventry had accepted my resignation," fulminated Robin fiercely. "This is a perfectly beastly business. That vile scandal's all over the place." "I know," assented Ann indifferently.
My attitude towards Margaret's lover, and whether that attitude was right or wrong, was the especial subject of debate and all New Jedboro abandoned itself to a carnival of judgment. Even the most pious and indulgent could not forego the solemn luxury, and those who denied themselves all of scandal's toothsome tidbits could not renounce this great repast.
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