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For it was not her own affair; it seemed like presumptuously middling in the affairs of the family. Above all, it involved the necessity of something which looked like tale-bearing and backbiting of a person she disliked, and there was in Elizabeth servant as she was an instinctive chivalrous honor which made her especially anxious to be just to her enemies.
These two cold-hearted persons, not contented with having driven the daughter of the poor nervous woman from her father's house, both kept pouncing at her, lest she should forget her great misfortune. Write me of their conduct. Do not make any communication of the state of these families at Kinnaird Head, as this would be like Tale-bearing." There is the great word out.
That which is in Holy Scripture forbidden and reproved under several names and notions: of bearing false witness, false accusation, railing censure, sycophantry, tale-bearing, whispering, backbiting, supplanting, taking up reproach: which terms some of them do signify the nature, others denote the special kinds, others imply the manners, others suggest the ends of this practice.
Tales and Tale-bearing, always with the emphatic capitals, run continually in his correspondence. I will give but two instances:
The bad priests, that is to say the clumsy priests, which is all the same, are in your cassock; and the clumsy ones are those who allow themselves to be caught. You have been caught, my son; and caught by whom? by your cook. Ha! Ha! Are you not ashamed to listen to the tale-bearing and calumny of that horrible woman? Horrible! Be quiet, you are blind. It is your conduct which is horrible.
His mood seemed wavering between annoyance and amusement; a word could decide the balance. With her last swallow he repeated his challenge. "Are you capable now of giving me any reason why I should not have you flogged from the camp? Is it your opinion that because I choose to behave foolishly before my friends, I am desirous to have tale-bearing boys listening?" "Boys" again!
But the most subtle and far-reaching research into past transactions was due to the Greffier Cornelis Aerssens, father of the Ambassador Francis, and to a certain Nicolas van Berk, Burgomaster of Utrecht. The process of tale-bearing, hearsay evidence, gossip, and invention went back a dozen years, even to the preliminary and secret conferences in regard to the Treaty of Truce.
"I don't think I am," she replied, quite calmly. "What did she say after I left the room?" Eva was very averse to tale-bearing, so merely answered the query with another. "Why do you suppose she said anything?" "Because I know her of old; she dislikes and despises me, and is always ready to express her sentiments whenever the slightest occasion offers."
So long as they did their duty during the school hours, they could do as they pleased during the play hour. Moreover, he was a great admirer of manliness in his boys. He would have been glad to find in everyone of them the stoical indifference to pain of the traditional Indian. Consequently, fair stand-up fights were winked at, and anything like tattling or tale-bearing sternly discouraged.
Continue to assure any persons, ill-advised and evil-minded enough to approach you I trust they may prove but few that you have never heard a word of this subject. You will never I can confidently promise you hear one from me. I shall make it my duty to preach on the iniquity of back-biting, tale-bearing, scandal-mongering next Sunday, and put some to the blush, as I trust. St.
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