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Updated: May 12, 2025
Vivian Grey!" and here Mr. Hargrave introduced Vivian to an effeminate-looking, perfumed young man, with a handsome, unmeaning face and very white hands; in short, as dapper a little diplomatist as ever tattled about the Congress of Verona, smirked at Lady Almack's supper after the Opera, or vowed "that Richmond Terrace was a most convenient situation for official men."
Black Rim gossip, which persisted in linking Mary Hope's name with Lance Lorrigan, grinned among themselves while they mentioned the piano, the schoolhouse, and the library as evidence of Lance's being "stuck on her." The Boyle children had frequently tattled to Mary Hope what they heard at home. Lance had done it all because he was in love with her.
Then, opening the front door, she drove Grunty Pig into the yard. "Now, I wonder why Mrs. Green put me out of the farmhouse," he muttered. Suddenly an idea popped into his head. "It must be," he cried, "because I told tales. I tattled on Moses Mouse; and Mrs. Green didn't like it. Next time I'll be careful about what I say to her." There never was a next time.
So we had gloves and wine and wafers, very pretty, and talked and tattled, and so we away by water and up with the tide, she and I and Barker, as high as Barne Eimes, it being a fine evening, and back again to pass the bridges at standing water between 9 and 10 at might, and then home and to supper, and then to bed with much pleasure.
"Ach, the poor kid" David was all sympathy and tenderness. "Let her get punished. Pulling Mary's hair like that!" "Well, Mary tattled. I was wishing Phœbe'd yank that darned kid's hair half off." "Mary just told the truth. You think everything Phœbe does is right and you help her along in her temper. She needs to be punished sometimes." "Ach, you make me tired, standing up for a tattle-tale!
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