How we cite our quotes: (Story.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Therefore, according to Mrs. MacPhail, a warty-nosed old busybody who is continually moving her sticks of furniture from one part of the front room to another; according to her and to certain others, these two were living in sin. (Ballad.79)
Even though town-wide rumors are offered without insult, single-person value judgments earn pejorative phrases like "warty-nosed old busybody."
Quote #5
At last she turned him off the premises altogether, and he was forced to suffer publicly. (Ballad.94)
Suffering publicly is of course the worst fate in a small town, where everyone knows your business. (Sometimes you don't want to go where everybody knows your name!)