In reading these letters we are eavesdropping, and eavesdroppers have no right to complain if the Plauderei they overhear sometimes turns out to be discreditable to the gossiper as well as his subjects. |
The meal did not last long, for the aunt, who was a gossiper, was only serving delicatessen that evening. |
Nothing worse can happen to the couple than to be discovered by this gossiper. |
Very ambitious and very cunning she is a very good friend to the town gossiper, Sevanne Bonnier. |
Let us suppose now that the pastor of that congregation had told me that she was under church discipline because she was a drunkard, an adulteress, or a gossiper, or had unresolved interpersonal conflicts. |
But in place of that he is only a gossiper, writing merely for the entertainment of a private circle. |