Shillaber, B. P. (Benjamin Penhallow), 1814-1890 [1854], Life and sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family. (J. C. Derby, New York) [word count] [eaf677T].
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SLANDERERS.
“If there is anybody under the canister of heaven
that I have in utter excrescence,” said Mrs. Partington,
“it is a tale-bearer and slanderer, going about, like a
vile boa-constructor, circulating his calomel about honest
folks. I always know one by his phismahogany. It
seems as if Belzebub had stamped him with his private
signal, and everything he looks at appears to turn
yaller.”
And, having uttered this somewhat elaborate speech,
she was seized with a fit of coughing, and took some
demulcent drops.
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Shillaber, B. P. (Benjamin Penhallow), 1814-1890 [1854], Life and sayings of Mrs. Partington and others of the family. (J. C. Derby, New York) [word count] [eaf677T].
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