Scandalmongery

As may be supposed, the business could not but suffer by these long hours passed in drunkenness and scandalmongery, but Mrs, Eusville had three daughters to bring out, and she hoped — when she had disposed of her shop, and her feet were set on the redoubtable staircase of Cork Hill — that her aristocratic friend would extend to her a corial helping hand.

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Biographical information about them must be pieced together from historians whose prejudices are entirely too obvious, from biographers with a distressing penchant for scandalmongery, from the casual side remarks of other authors, and — perhaps most unreliably of all — from the works of the authors themselves.

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And I fear scandalmongery. People would spread malicious tales and calumnies about me.

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You must own their lot has not fallen in a fair ground, and as far as I can make out, although their visits are productive of a terrible amount of gossip and scandalmongery, they have never been found out in thieving or roguery.”

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