No, he did not, and had not; yet, stay, he had heard a rumor, once upon a time, of a great, old house standing alone out in the wilderness; but, if he remembered rightly it was a place given over to the fairies; or, if that had not been so, he was certain that there had been something "quare" about it; and, anyway, he had heard nothing of it for a very long whilenot since he was quite a gossoon.

The servants, who all wanted to leave, and the villagers, who avoided the grounds after nightfall, spread the rumor far and near that the house was haunted.

How such a death must have confirmed all the superstitious rumors about him the reader will easily conceive.

" "Not much news this week," the item blithely ran, "so we hereby start the rumor that 'Upright' Potts is going to leave town.

And afterward (from a notoriously untruthful North, indeed) came rumors that he was rapidly becoming wealthy; and of Patricia Vartrey's death at her daughter's birth; and of the infant's health and strength and beauty, and of her lavish upbringing,a Frenchwoman, Lichfield whispered, with absolutely nothing to do but attend upon the child.

In the meantime it was one o'clock, the news began to spread through the palace that a decree of deposition against Louis Bonaparte had been drawn up by a part of the Assembly; one of the judges who had gone out during the debate, brought back this rumor to his colleagues.

" While the two lovers are thus engaged in a pleasant but indecisive daily round of amusement, Bellpine, a false friend, tries to turn Jemmy's affection to the fair musician, Miss Chit, in order to win Jenny for himself, but failing in that, circulates rumors of Jemmy's attachment to Miss Chit in hopes of alienating the lovers' regard.

When the news of the loss of Vincennes reached the Illinois towns, and especially when there followed a rumor that Hamilton himself was on his march thither to attack them,

I have never troubled myself to contradict these scandalous rumors, being content to rely on the handsome vindication from this charge which the President published.

Whence arose the rumor, I cannot say, but it was noised about just at that time of wrath and tension that Plooie was born in Liège.

That he should deem it necessary to address me a letter to counteract such rumors, is the only thing remarkable.

"] The Plot Leaks Out By degrees the story of the infamous secret committee and its diabolical plan leaked out, adding positive confirmation to the many already credited rumors in circulation.

" "Well; you have heard, of course, the many stories currentthe thousand vague rumors afloat about money buried, somewhere on the Atlantic coast, by Kidd and his associates.

When your credit is doubted, don't bother to deny the rumors, but discount your bills.

A colored editor who possesses the saving grace of humor, along with other talents of a high order, gravely observed, in discussing this rumor, that "the poor man could not help it, even if he were white, and that a fact for which he was in no wise responsible should not be allowed to stand in the way of his advancement.

In Virginia, again, there were disturbing rumors at one place or another every year or two from 1809 to 1814, but no occurrence of tangible character until the Boxley plot of 1816 in Spottsylvania and Louisa Counties.

Si al resonar confuso á tus espaldas Vago rumor, Crees que por tu nombre te

At first I thought Haught's informant was exaggerating a mere rumor.

Caesar passed rapidly on through Asia Minor, examining and comparing, as he advanced, the vague rumors which were continually coming in in respect to Pompey's movements.

It was like hundreds of other quaint old towns along the French and Flemish border, not yet raked by war, but motionless, with workmen idle, young men gone to the front, and nothing for people to do but exchange rumors and wait for the clash to come.

Have not express charges, as well as vague rumors, been brought against him at the bar of the public?

On looking over a provincial paper, I find astounding rumors of ghosts appearing upon the track of a western railroad.

The Cortes has been established in Spain, and there floats a rumor that the Saint, the adored Ferdinand, has fled to France.

It tells how the maidens gave them dainties and sweet glances, and boutonnières of tuberoses and violets, and bloodthirsty adjurations, and blarney for blarney; gave them seven wild well-believed rumors for as many impromptu canards, and in their soft plantation drawl asked which was the one paramount "ladies' man," and were assured by every lad of the hundred that it was himself.

There has gone a rumor about the barn that there is a stranger to be eaten, and it's likelyif they keep their clamorthere will be a bone for each.