They had been out with the hounds all day, and, beyond the natural gossip of the country-side, had heard nothing fresh concerning the tragedy.

It would doubtless by this time have become a subject of gossip and speculation in the household and consequently would very soon become public.

Their guardian must not credit such idle gossip, for they are both sincerely attached to the children, and intend to do the best they can for them.

She told him all the innocent gossip of the neighborhood.

When I awoke to consciousness I found myself lying on a sofa in a small sitting-room; but no one was bending tenderly over menot even a mother's face met my eyesbut the gossip of two women servants grated painfully on my ear.

The tears rolled down my cheeks; but having ascertained that my parents had not yet returned, I cut short the gossip of the servants, and ordering them to bring me some water, I arranged my disordered dress for a visit to the sufferer's apartment.

" "I think that after I am married, Father, you or King Ferdinand or King Helmas can send Count Manuel into England on some embassy, and I am sure that he and I will always be true and dear friends without affording any handle to gossip.

At the same time, the disconsolate mother feared the people around herthe gossip of a small town, bored with itself, ever on the alert, hunting for something interesting to talk about and get scandalized about.

When at night he reached his beloved's houseit seemed to be redolent with the very perfume of her, as if the furniture, the curtains, the very walls about her had absorbed the essence of her spirithe felt the strain of that insistent gossip, of the persecution of an entire city that had fixed its eyes upon his love.

With the serene immodesty of the ancient idylls, they had abandoned themselves to passion in a stupid, narrow environment, where sprightly gossip was the most appreciated of the moral talents!

The gossip had gotten even to the Blue House!

All the gossip, all the echoes of Leonora's adventurous life, that hadheretofore but feeblycome to her ears, the old lady had never believed, regarding them as the work of envy.

The old hotel, with its spacious rooms, its high ceilings, its darkened corridors, its monastic silence, seemed to him a veritable abode of delight, a grateful place of refuge where for once he would be free of the gossip and the strife that had been oppressing him like a belt of steel.

Gossip had already connected the excitement in the Brull mansion with Rafael's taking the early train!

He had not as yet gotten anywhere in particular; but according to Chamber gossip he was a "serious" well-balanced young man, of few words, but good ones, and sure some day to be rewarded with a Portfolio.

Two hours of veiled insult and pungent gossip had passed all too soon.

Perhaps nothing contributed more importantly to the gossip of the latter than did the mention of quiet Addison himself after the night in April, 1713, which witnessed the triumph of "Cato."

Much that he gives us in his "General History of the Stage" is only gossip, yet what is there more fascinating than tittle-tattle about players?

The gossip of the drawing-room is merely inane, or else scandalous; but shift the scene to the theatre, and a story no longer bores; it is consecrated by the sacrament of interest.

There was something in the girl, a quiet air of pride and self-reliance, in spite of her too evident sadness, which forbade any overt expression of sympathy; so Mrs. Tadman could only show her friendly feelings in a very small way, by being especially active and brisk in assisting all the household labours of the new mistress of Wyncomb, and by endeavouring to cheer her with such petty gossip as she was able to pick up.

It was not a market-day, but Stephen Whitelaw had announced at dinner-time that he had an appointment at Malsham, and had set out immediately after dinner in the chaise-cart, much to the wonderment of Mrs. Tadman, who was an inveterate gossip, and never easy until she arrived at the bottom of any small household mystery.

He was communicating some piece of town gossip to Maria Dmitrievna and Gedeonovsky, both of whom had by this time returned from the garden, and he was laughly loudly at his own story.

Monckton's friend was a very clever gossip, and knew how to question without seeming curious, and the gossiping landlady helped him.

If space and the reader's patience would allow of it, I might gossip on of many more reminiscences of the baths of Lucca, all pleasant or laughable.

Father, mother, both are sleeping, Near at hand their rest they take; But we two, in pleasant gossip, Keep each other long awake.