How Slander is Spread
" Camumny, sir ! You hardly know what you are despising. I have seen the most respectable people* almost "merwheimed by ifc. . Believe me there is no sort of wickedness, uo horror, no absurd talk that you cannot make the idlers of a village believe in if you set the right way about it. First a little humming sound, skimming the ground like a swallow before the storm ; pianissimo, pianissimo, murmuring and buzzing, and. spreading the poison as it goes. A breath catches it up, piann. piano, it glides into your ear adroitly. . The harm is done, it takes root, it climbs, it travels, and rushing from mouth to mouth, it travels like the devil. Then, all at once, you hardly know how, you see it raising its head, swelling itself, crowing monptrous under your very eyes. It rises, takes its flght, whirls round you clutches you, drags you along, bursts forth, and thunders, and becomes, Heaven help us ! a general shriek, crescendo, a universal chorus of hatred and proscription. Who the devil can w Hhstand V'-"Tte Barber of Servilie." ■,•
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 93, 12 February 1887, Page 3
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182How Slander is Spread Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 93, 12 February 1887, Page 3
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