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Updated: October 12, 2025
Moreover, she shatters the bond of engagement, although but three weeks remain of the fatal six months. She would rather break stones on the road all day and sleep in a pauper's grave all night, than marry a man who, while professing to love her, would listen to mean and malicious gossips picked up by tell-tales in the servants' hall.
As we approached it, the Fates, which had before seemed unpropitious to us, began to smile, and the rain-squall, which had come up quite unexpectedly, began to envelope us in its friendly folds, shutting in our dense clouds of black smoke, which were really the worst tell-tales we had to dread.
I never could bear the way the Mackenzies used to have of thinking their parents must be like enemies, and keeping secrets from them." "They were always threatening each other, 'I'll tell mamma," said Flora, "and calling us tell-tales because we told our own dear mamma everything.
Its colour was an uniform red, with the exception of one of those expressive little fibrous tell-tales on each cheek, which bear so striking a resemblance to the mazes of the vine, and which would seem to be the true origin of the proverb which says that "good wine needs no bush."
It was, as Phineas thought, a peculiarity with Violet Effingham that she could treat her rejected lovers as dear familiar friends immediately after her rejection of them. "Mr. Finn," said Madame Max Goesler, "your eyes and ears are tell-tales of your passion." "I hope not," said Phineas, "as I certainly do not wish that any one should guess how strong is my regard for you."
"He handed me into the boat," said Miss Darpent. "Who saw him last? Did you, Miss Woodford?" Anne was forced to own that she had seen him on board, and her cheeks were in spite of herself such tell-tales that Mr. Fellowes could not help saying, "It is not my part to rebuke you, madam, but if you were aware of this evasion, you will have a heavy reckoning to pay to the young man's parents."
"Then we've made the ould boy see that we mane it," said Pete. "'If you know any one of the ringleaders, Deemster, he said, with a look into my face somebody had been with him there are tell-tales everywhere " "It's the way of the world still," said Pete.
"Your fastidiousness is not a disease with which all on board are afflicted, for there is at least one grand inquisitor among us, by what I can learn; so take heed to your sins, and above all, be very guarded of old letters, marks, and other tell-tales, that usually expose impostors." "To all that, I believe, sufficient care has already been had, by that other Dromio, my own man."
They were generally regarded as spies and tell-tales, and the men were very cautious of what they said and did in the presence of these elect. "I could be pious for a pound a day," said one prisoner in my hearing, with reference to the chaplain's salary. "Yes," said the man he spoke to, "so could I, or 'arf of it." One Sunday the lesson was the story of Peter's miraculous rescue from prison.
THERE were some ill-natured people tell-tales it seemed, in Tamai; and hence there was a deal of mystery about getting up the dance. An hour or two before midnight, Rartoo entered the house, and, throwing robes of tappa over us, bade us follow at a distance behind him; and, until out of the village, hood our faces. Keenly alive to the adventure, we obeyed.
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