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Still his school character was good, and there was a certain worth about him, which made him sometimes withdraw his resistance, though never submit; and Felix had some hope that it would be so in the present case, when, while speeding to church in the dark winter Monday morning, he overheard Lance say to Clement, 'I say, Clem, 'tis a jolly stinging frost.
"I think I can, sir, this evening; after a feed and some rest." The white horse had suddenly become a centre of interest in the inn- yard. Everybody, from the landlord to the stable-boy, felt its legs, and patted it, and suggested various lines of treatment. Before he drove away, Mr. Ammaby overheard the landlord saying, "He be a sharp hand, is the Squire.
Even when we were so hotly pressed that there was often no pause made for a meal, a joke in the saddle was relished in the place of food. In little groups, too, round the camp fires we would beguile the long evenings of winter nights by relating our personal adventures. We will record a few of these, acquired from personal experience or overheard at such gatherings.
What harm did the unfortunate Agnes do to thee?" "I saw in her a rival, Fernand or fancied that she was so," answered Nisida; "I overheard your conversation with her that morning in the garden I saw her embrace thee tenderly mine ears drank in her words; oh, I remember them even now! She said, 'Oh, what a night of uneasiness have I passed!
It seems that some two months since, the lad in coming through the French camp at night missed his way, and accidentally overheard a few words spoken in a voice which he recognized as that of his enemy. The name of your Majesty being mentioned, he deemed it his duty to listen, and thus discovered that a plot was on foot for carrying off the princess.
"My dear Wildrake," said the Colonel, "I, as well as you, believe it possible that our speech may be overheard; but I care not, and will speak my mind plainly. I trust Sir Henry and Alice are not engaged in this silly plot; I cannot reconcile it with the pride of the one, the modesty of the other, nor the good sense of both, that any motive could engage them in so strange a conjunction.
"You may remember, in the first place, that the lad who overheard this conversation risked his life to save me and my daughter from the consequences of the attack which he heard planned; in the second place, he was no ragged lad, but the apprentice of a well-known citizen; thirdly, and this is of importance, since he has recognized you since your return, and is ready should I give him the word, to denounce you.
Colonel Armytage, who had through all the proceedings maintained as calm and dignified a deportment as he could command, overheard the words, and stepping forward said, "Captain Morton, or I should rather say, Captain Brindister for I fully believe that name is yours you have acted nobly and generously; you have taught me to think better of the world than I was inclined to do.
I had been seeking the fellow alone, revolver in hand. She had overheard what must have sounded like a struggle, and there was the dead man, his skull crushed by a blow. Everything pointed directly toward me from her point of view motive, opportunity. Who else could it be? Even I, anxious as I was, could not answer that question.
When you went to your dressing-room, did you not say, 'Poor Erik? Well, Christine, there was a poor Raoul who overheard you." "This is the second time that you have listened behind the door, M. de Chagny!" "I was not behind the door ... I was in the dressing-room, in the inner room, mademoiselle." "Oh, unhappy man!" moaned the girl, showing every sign of unspeakable terror. "Unhappy man!
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