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"Muriel thoroughly deserves to get into trouble." "No, Enid, please don't; I beg you won't!" pleaded Patty. "Why not?" "Because I don't want you to." "But why? Miss Rowe ought to hear about it." "Oh, it really doesn't matter! Now that all of you know I didn't mean to cheat, I don't care. I hate tell-tales." "I should care," declared Winnie. "It's no use getting Muriel into trouble," said Patty.
Those who presented themselves but seldom were thus Characterise: "They are people I never see;" these decrees were irrevocable. He could not bear people who liked Paris. Louis XIV. took great pains to be well informed of all that passed everywhere; in the public places, in the private houses, in society and familiar intercourse. His spies and tell-tales were infinite.
Some teachers set boys and girls to watch one another and to tell on one another when they see anyone whispering. I do not think that is a fair thing to do, for it makes tell-tales of boys and girls. And tell-tales are never attractive. The story I am going to relate to you is about a teacher who set the pupils in a room to watch each other, and to tell if they caught anyone idle.
Are you in league with the thieves, that you must needs try to devour the signs and tell-tales they dropped in the track of their dirty work? It is only a glove this time, sir, and it was all crumpled, just so, where I first saw it, when I ran out to hunt for footprints.
Busy tell-tales repeated and twisted every impatient word Montcalm spoke, and altogether Canada was at sixes and sevens. Vaudreuil, sitting comfortably at his desk and eating three good meals a day, had written to Montcalm saying that there would be no trouble about provisions if Fort Edward was attacked.
Here's a Health to Detail, Retail, and Curtail indeed, all the tails but tell-tales. The Coming Millennium: When great men are honest and honest men are great. Our Merchant: May he have good trade, well paid. May the Devil cut the toes of all our foes, That we may know them by their limping. May we Live to learn well and Learn to live well.
Nebrasky grinned wretchedly. "Well, she's a lady, and she's square, not takin' a man's gift when she don't take the man. But you'd ought to get back all them letters yu' wrote her. Yu' sure ought to ask her for them tell-tales." "Ah, pshaw, Honey!" protested the youth. It was well known that he could not write his name.
I have thrice heard the tread of man, moving across that floor; though it hath been light and wary, the planks are tell-tales, and have not had their schooling." Content heard the request, which was uttered sufficiently in the manner of an order, perfectly unmoved. Without betraying either hesitation or concern, he disposed himself to comply.
"She did say something about you, though: I heard her," volunteered Robin. "Then you shouldn't have listened, and you've no need to tell. I hate tell-tales!" said Milly, forestalling his offered confidence. "If you've finished tea, you'd better go and feed the guinea-pigs.
But even independent of these tell-tales the stranger's social position was easily enough discerned by the deference with which he was treated "along the line," and the title of "Squire," which greeted him from guards, porters, and book-keepers at every station we passed.
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