He seemed to meditate for a moment, and then resumed: "
Gossip Tourangeau, since that is your name, turn your head, you will find my reply already written on the wall."
"Nay,
gossip," said the barber, "for this that I have here is the famous 'Don Belianis.'"
What chiefly worries me is the fear of
gossip. Goodbye, little angel.
From reading he passed to sleeping, from sleeping to
gossip in drawing rooms of the Club, from
gossip to carousals and women; from carousals back to
gossip, reading, and wine.
"To put a stop to all the nasty
gossip of the beach.
"What wicked
gossip were you talking over there?" asked Betsy.
"Of course, it's not right to talk MEAN
gossip, but the harmless kind doesn't hurt.
"But I have no money,
gossip. Let me go after that vile bag-o'-bones, and I'll soon get it out of him."
She believed him to be heartless, selfish, and misguided, but she knew that he was not the loud, coarse, sensual, and ignorant brawler most of her mother's
gossips supposed him to be.
It was all very well to say that he was devoted to his profession, and that he had neither time nor inclination to pick up fragments of
gossip at dinner-parties and balls.
As to
gossip, you know, sending him away won't hinder
gossip.
Several of the women stopped their
gossip long enough to cast curious looks upon our friends, but immediately they would turn away with a laugh or a sneer and resume their chatter.