Professor Engelhardt wrote one of his published "Letters from a Village" at that very moment, and states that the moujiks would not understand the circular to mean anything more than a request that they would for a time abstain from gossiping at random about the coming redistribution.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
She even has a Good way of gossiping about people, and I despise her for no other reason than that she is Good.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
In the town on the hill, where the twinkling lights mingle with the stars, waits a weeping woman who knew Allan Dorris well; let her opinion of the dead prevail, and not that of the gossiping winds which have been whispering into the ears of the people.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe