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She felt that she must confide in someone, so she wrote a full account of events at Symon's Yat to her son. It was the worst possible thing she could have done. Unconsciously for she was now anxious to help instead of hindering Medenham's wooing some of the gall in her nature distilled itself into words. She dwelt on the river episode with all the sly rancor of the inveterate scandalmonger.
We went through the motions of what might have been a game of e'carte'. Presently the intolerable scandalmonger withdrew, probably to inform the people in the billiard-room that we two were gambling on the verandah like mad. We were not gambling, but it was a game; a game in which I felt I held the winning cards.
Winship's tent, 'I don't know whether I ought to repeat what was told me in confidence, but the fact is well she doesn't like Mr. Pinkerton very well! The other girls, who had not enjoyed the advantages of city life and travel, looked as dazed as any scandalmonger could have desired. 'Don't like him! gasped Polly, nearly falling off the stump. 'Why, she's married to him!
Ghosts are clothed in ghostly clothing; and the question has often been asked of modern spiritualists by materialistic scoffers, 'Where do the ghosts get their coats and dresses? The true believer in cremation and the shadowy world has no difficulty at all in answering that crucial inquiry; he would say at once, 'They are the ghosts of the clothes that were burnt with the body. In the gossiping story of Periander, as veraciously retailed for us by that dear old grandmotherly scandalmonger, Herodotus, the shade of Melissa refuses to communicate with her late husband, by medium or otherwise, on the ground that she found herself naked and shivering with cold, because the garments buried with her had not been burnt, and therefore were of no use to her in the world of shades.
"Look you here, my man; you've an unwholesome mind, which probably you can't help, but a tongue which you can help, and shall! If there is a breath of this repeated ..." "I'll not be talked to on my own doorstep like this by anybody,..." Barrett had blustered.... "You shall, and I'm doing it ..." "Don't you forget there's a Gawd above all, Who 'as said..." "You're a low scandalmonger!..."
It is a strange human frailty that cannot stand for long the purgatory of seeing the elevation of a great public benefactor. The less competent the critics, the more merciless they are in their declamation and intrigue. They hint at faults, and if this is too ineffective, they invent them. Men in prominent public positions rarely escape the vituperation of the professional scandalmonger.
Every scandalmonger and talebearer comes here and here's," he continued, suddenly dropping his voice to a whisper, "one of the biggest of 'em watch him, and listen to him, if he comes near us. That tall, thin man, in the grey suit, the man with the grizzled moustache. Listen, Mr.
The editor told me, with that nameless look of the cynical scandalmonger, that if I wanted to learn anything about Huntington Close I had best watch Mrs. Frances Tulkington, a very wealthy Western divorcee about whom the smart set were much excited, particularly those whose wealth made it difficult to stand the pace of society as it was going at present.
No man is obliged to give himself away in matters of this sort, and I am no scandalmonger. The situation, however, has undergone a change." Wrayson looked up quickly. "What do you mean?" he asked. "To-night," Heneage said calmly, "I recognized your nocturnal visitor with the Baroness de Sturm. "And what of that?" Wrayson demanded.
If they would treat me so, who am innocent, what would they do to my poor Lucy?" These rumors never reached the doctor. No scandalmonger ever dared talk gossip to him. When he first began to practise among the people of Warehold, and some garrulous old dame would seek to enrich his visit by tittle-tattle about her neighbors, she had never tried it a second time.
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