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I will be no tale-bearer, not even to God." So we stood musing a little while, I gazing not on the dead men, but on the strange pictures on the wall, which were richer and deeper coloured than those in the nave; till at last John Ball turned to me and laid his hand on my shoulder. I started and said, "Yea, brother; now must I get me back to Will Green's house, as I promised to do so timely."
A committee of ecclesiastics considered the case, and having come to the conclusion that he lacked vocation for the priesthood, sent him home. Timothy was accustomed to say that his violence might have been passed over, but that his failure to appreciate the devotion to duty which inspired the tale-bearer marked him decisively as unfit for ordination.
"Ah, ye tale-bearer!" cried his father with a withering contempt, which could not quite hide his perturbation. "It's a fine pack ye meet every night in the Glen! Their only thought is to hear or tell some new thing, let it be false or true! Ye canna' even keep yer ill tongues aff a meenister o' the Gospel!" "But this is true, father," declared the young man seriously.
I thought compassionately of the unrest and discontent of thousands who devote themselves to the smallest and narrowest aims in life, people with whom the loss of a mere article of wearing apparel is more important than a national difficulty people who devote all their faculties to social schemes of self-aggrandisement people who discuss trifles till discussion is worn threadbare, and ears are tired and brain is weary people who, assuming to be religious and regular church-goers, yet do the meanest things, and have no scruple in playing the part of tale-bearer and mischief-maker, setting themselves deliberately to break friendships and destroy love people who talk of God as though He were their intimate, and who have by their very lives drawn everything of God out of them I thought of all these, I say and I thought how different this world would be if men would hold by the noblest ideals, and suffer the latent greatness in them to have its way if they would truly rule their own universe and not allow its movements to fall into chaos how fair life would become! how replete with health and joy! what a paradise would be created around us! and what constant benediction we should draw down upon us from the Most High!
Scaliger sat in his study, eagerly expecting a reply, but Cardan took no notice of the attack. Then one day some tale-bearer, moved either by the spirit of tittle-tattle or the love of mischief, brought to Julius Cæsar the news that Jerome Cardan had sunk under his tremendous battery of abuse, and was dead.
And Tilda Tattle, the tiresome-tongued, town tale-bearer, could not abide the cat, because it mewed all the time she was tattling. And so it happened that good Deacon Pettibone, and his wife, who was even better than the deacon, were about the only visitors the wee, weird Widow Wiggins had.
"You said I might say something: It may be that is the kind of woman you understand best. But I won't be classed with such not even by you. If you've saved me from great danger it doesn't give you the right to insult me by telling me you expect me to be a tale-bearer. It isn't manly or fair to treat me in that way." "You mustn't expect too much from a thief."
A moderate amount of friction provided it did not wholly clog the wheels of administration was not deemed an unmixed evil. It served to make each official a tale-bearer against his colleague, so that the home authorities might count on getting all sides to every story. The financial situation, moreover, was always precarious.
"You hurt," complained Janice. The bondsman relaxed but not released his hold at the sound of her voice. "You've heard all I said?" he demanded. "Yes. I I did n't like to come out while the man was here." "And you'll tell your father?" "No," denied the girl. "I did n't want to listen by stealth, but since I did, I'm no tale-bearer." Raising the hand he held by the wrist, Charles kissed it.
No ex post facto resolution could cure that lie, though of course it is a privileged one to a girl. Dic made no reply, save to remark: "I'll see Miss Sukey to-morrow. If I wanted to 'take hold' of her, as she calls it, I would do so, but but I'll see her to-morrow." The answer startled Rita. She did not want to be known as a tale-bearer.
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