"You've been a great deal together, you know," said his friend; "that has given the scandal-mongers something to go on.

Her scandal novels did not fail to arouse the wrath of persons in high station, and Alexander Pope made of the writer's known, though never acknowledged connection with pieces of the sort a pretext for showing his righteous zeal in the cause of public morality and his resentment of a fancied personal insult.

Contempt, that false new word for shame, Is, without crime, an empty name, A shadow to amuse mankind, But never frights the wise or well-fixed mind: Virtue despises human scorn, And scandals innocence adorn.

Nor during those eighteen years which Paula passed in Bethlehem, or the previous sixteen years at Rome, did ever a scandal rise or a base suspicion exist in reference to the friendship which has made her immortal.

In the essays themselves the same purpose led to the censure of gambling, lying, affectation of youth by the aged, jilts, "Anti-Eternitarians," scandal bearing, and other petty sins and sinners.

The Oriental setting used by Addison with signal success is never attempted and even scandal stories are frowned upon.

Morning would have published news of the scandal broadcast, but until the irrevocable step had been takenwe determined to avoid gossip.

A possible return to scandal-mongering should be noted.