This story was made up by his neighbours not because they were fanciful or wanted to deceive, but like most tittle-tattle to fill a gap, as few like to confess ignorance, and if people are asked about such or such a man they must have something to say, or they suffer in everybody's opinion, are set down as dull or "out of the swim."

She has not, without pride, related all the little tattle which passed between her and persons of distinction, who, through the abundance of their idleness, thought proper to trifle an hour with her.

Perhaps she would have treated the matter as mere idle tittle-tattle, if she had not already regretted that she herself had no second child.

But this good lady wants to see men chatting together upon the Pelagian heresy to hear, in the afternoon, the theological rumours of the dayand to glean polemical tittle-tattle at a tea-table rout.

Books and talk alike will seem trivial and meaningless tattle, ministering to nothing.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth; they have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit; but for solid reasoning, good sense, I never knew in my life one that had it, or who reasoned or acted consequentially for four-and-twenty hours together.

So, after a little unimportant tattle, Coronado made his best bow to the old fellow, and hurried off to oversee his so-called cousin.

Perhaps she would have treated the matter as mere idle tittle-tattle, if she had not already regretted that she herself had no second child.

A system of espionage, whisperings, backbitings, and miserable tittle-tattle, sometimes of the most slanderous or the most ridiculous kind, was set going all over Oxford.