Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-30
rHn TRAVELLED WHISPER.
a.s pll tell thee tale as twas told to me.''


u - 81 do not like to say anything about it, .
% Hhispered Mrs. Sawyer to her next door neigh
- Dor, Mrs. Ashton, IS but they do say that Miss
od Bates our new music teacher, is no better than
n she should be be. don't think that shall
III send Anna Maria Sarah Jane True she
~ comes highly recommended, but Mrs. Good
81 enough whose daughter went to school last
year, within twenty miles of Miss Bates faith
b1er,s tells me that her daughter heard fram
ss one of her schoolmates, slight whisper to
no Miss Bates disadvantage and people are best
unknown at home, you know
1a Mrs. Ashton held up both her go1ved hands
81 in wonder and approval of this sentiment, and
g,i then hastened away on her round of morning
calls, all the wiser for her visit to Mrs Sawyer s.
osaai Her next stopping place was at Mrs, Willis
- She found the lady over her sewing in the sit
10 ting room, and quite alone.
ODD ~ Lam delighted to see you, cried Mrs. Ash
Lsnton half breathless with fast walking. 1t
a has been an age since met you last. How are
giiyou and your charming daughters, Melissa Ann
on and Juliaf The latter are at school, dare
Fl say. BY the way. Mrs. Willis, l have been
-lis greatly shocked this morning. l should never
O have dreamed of such thing, Mrs. Sawyer
ri has just been whispering to me. can hardly
81 believe it now. But must beg you not to say
Fl q word about it to any fiving saul. am shock
..s ed 80 to think such thing could have hap
,l, pened! Pray don t mention it from me on any
i considerations, but they do say that Miss Bates,
&. the music teacher, has pe1y bad character
70 indeed at home Mrs. Sawyer has it on unques-
o. tionable authority, and has declined the idea of
zj, sending her daughter on that account. But
10, she is young and pretty, poor thing and am
LIVERY sorry for her, and wouldn t njure her for
anything in the world > as .
on Mrs, Willis laid down her work with con-
y sternation pictured in her face; and the two
,s4u ladies Whispered and nodded significantly for
the next two hours.
.,sfA At the end of that time Mrs. Willis remem-
II, bcrcd that size had host of calls to make, and
tying on her bonnet, the two ladies went out
together ia 4,
iIi7. Before night, the whisper that Mrs Sawyer
a had thoughtlessly echoed from the tongue of a
IL school girl had travelled all through the village
and ten miles into the country, and there was
prospect of its travelling on, on, as far as the
~ Academy of b was known, and blighting
in every family, where it carried, the fair
tame of a pale faced sweet young creature,
who bent with patient assduity over her task,
sy4 unconscious that a breath more fatal than the
SO
Nj acter If there is not deliberate cruelty in thus
fiz numbering the reputation and destroying the
ln influence of another, and that other stranger
hss -timid and sensitive as the Mimosa which
sfe sl,rinks from the slightest touch. tell me in
Is7a what cruelty conists And yet it all the
7,.4work of irhiYoer; thoughtless and unneanng
whisper. Miss Bates reputation was re-estab-
5 lished when she learned, after weeks of suffer
IN ing, the exaggerated reports everywhere in
g circulation in regard to hs and brought testi-
~. monials of her innocence, from her native vii
II lage, and from the first persons in other COM
munities, with whom she chanced to be teforc
acquainted it re-established when she had
f,s,. stayed long in the Academy at B. and
Gag bred do,On the aspersions SO cruelty cast upon
41. her
.Isg But her case is not isolated one. Many
O. and many a reputation has been wrecked by
air busy bodies, who have little to do at home,
10 and go abroad for employment; who love to
VI gossip over their neighbor's affairs and help
La,, on with railroad speed, THE TRAVELLING wII1s-
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