"Oh, those Moscow gossips!" said Dolokhov, and he took up the cards with a smile.
As early as September 1565 gossips were busy over the indiscretion of Riccio's favour: Darnley had forfeited the good opinion of his wife; was angry because the Hamiltons were not wholly sacrificed to the ancient feud of Lennox and his clan; and Knox's party looked forward with horror to the parliament of March 1566, when Mary certainly meant " to do something tending to some good anent restoring the ancient religion."
The chief news, about which all Moscow gossips, is the death of old Count Bezukhov, and his inheritance.
