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Not a drop will I touch that day, and a fool indeed I must be if I can't act my part without bungling for a few hours at a stretch, and I a-listening every night in the parlour of the 'Spotted Dog' to old seamen swearing and singing their songs. And I'll find an opportunity to give Moll a hint of my past folly, and so rescue her from a like pitfall.
Once more he roused himself, heard the storm raving on over buried graves and curtained beds, heedless of human heeding fell a-listening to its shriek-broken roar, and so into a soundless and dreamless sleep. He woke so suddenly that for a moment he knew himself only for somebody he knew. There lay upon him the weight of an indefinable oppression the horror of a darkness too vague to be combated.
I managed to ask softly in memory of a like question he had put to me across that bread and jam with the rose a-listening from the dark. What brought me to consciousness was his fumbling with the lace on that blue muslin relict of a sentiment. The lace had got caught on his sleeve buttons. "Please don't forget that that is his possession," I laughed under his chin.
'But you have a son, returned Mr Chester, giving his bridle to Hugh as he dismounted, and acknowledging his salute by a careless motion of his hand towards his hat. 'Why don't you make HIM useful? 'Why, the truth is, sir, replied John with great importance, 'that my son what, you're a-listening are you, villain? 'Who's listening? returned Hugh angrily. 'A treat, indeed, to hear YOU speak!
"There, there!" cried Dotty Dimple, "you've been a-listening, Johnny Eastman." "Don't care! 'Tisn't so bad as being a tell-tale, Miss!" said Johnny, ending the sentence in a naughty tone. "Why, Johnny, you mus'n't say that!" "Why, Johnny," echoed Katie, "you musser say that!" "Say what?" "Say Miss." The children all laughed at this. "Come, little ones," said Mr.
I said it was only what's natural, her being the age she is. I said what she wanted was a young man, and I said she'd get one. And what do you think?" "I don't know, I'm sure." "She did get one," said Mrs. Symes impressively, "that same week, just as if she'd been a-listening to my very words. It was as it might be Friday you and me had that little talk.
"Yes, sir. You quite capped me." "Stop a minute, Joe. I want to say something to you." "All right, sir," cried the sailor, looking wonderingly at the lad, who was speaking to him in a husky impressive tone. But Rodd remained speechless, and it was the sailor who broke the silence. "I'm a-listening, sir. Heave ahead." "Yes," cried Rodd desperately. "Look here, Joe; were you making fun of me?"
Well, then, pretty soon all hands got to talking about the diseased again, and how good he was, and what a loss he was, and all that; and before long a big iron-jawed man worked himself in there from outside, and stood a-listening and looking, and not saying anything; and nobody saying anything to him either, because the king was talking and they was all busy listening.
And though I didn't rightly come to Monkhaven to look for you, I had a feeling it was bore in on me that I'd maybe find some trace of you, and I thought Toby would be the best help. And truly I could believe he'd scented you were not far off the worry he's been all this morning! A-barking and a-sniffing and a-listening like!
Where did you pick it up?" "Eh, Master Austin," said Lubin, emerging from among the rhododendrons, "if I'd known you was a-listening I'd 'a faked up something from a French opera for you. Why, that's an old song as I've known ever since I was that high 'Tom of Exeter' they calls it. It's a rare favourite wi' the maids down in the parts I come from." "Shows their good taste," said Austin.
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