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At the distant end these signals are received sometimes on an ink-writing recorder as dots and dashes, or even as typewriting letters; but in many of the earlier systems, like that of Bain, the record at the higher rates of speed was effected by chemical means, a tell-tale stain being made on the travelling strip of paper by every spurt of incoming current.
The charms of Miss Carey, the sister of the bride, seem even to have caused a slight fluttering in his bosom; which, however, was constantly rebuked by the remembrance of his former passion so at least we judge from letters to his youthful confidants, rough drafts of which are still to be seen in his tell-tale journal.
I approached the mausoleum very warily; a soft west wind was blowing, the night was quiet with alternate swathes of darkness and light as billowy clouds took the moon by storm and passed beyond her. I stayed in the shadow of the trees, beside the knoll, and spied out the landscape, and listened for any tell-tale sound.
The first feeling was that of pleasure at perceiving how well she bore the alarms and dangers of the past night. This pleasure he expressed, with the frankness admitted, by the habits of the Germans. "Thou wilt not suffer, Adelheid, by the exposure on the lake!" he said, studying her face until the tell-tale blood stole to her very temples.
Ada hesitated, and clasped her hands tightly together, while the tell-tale blood rushed to her cheeks. Glumm, ever stupid on these matters, said no other word, but turned on his heel and strode quickly away. "Stay!" she said. She did not say this loudly, but Glumm heard it, turned round, and strode back again.
He dropped his finger slowly, maintaining his reproachful glare. Then suddenly: "Did you invellop the damned thing yourself?" She answered tremulously: "I wrote it in this room at this table, where you sit, and put it in its invellop, and stuck it to, firm. And I put back the blotting-book where I took it from, not to tell-tale...." He interrupted her roughly. "Got the cursed thing there?
When her lover's name became mingled with the remembrances of her childhood the change came. Once more, the tell-tale lines began to harden in the governess's face. She lay back again in her chair. Her fingers irritably platted and unplatted the edge of her black apron. Carmina was too deeply absorbed in her thoughts, too eagerly bent on giving them expression, to notice these warning signs.
I was about to communicate the intentions of my father; for the circumstances in which we were placed, the weight of our many obligations, the usual distance which rank interposes between the noble and the simply born, perhaps justified this boldness in a maiden," she added, though the tell-tale blood revealed her shame.
Each member of the Cabinet took possession of her own blouse, wrapped it up tenderly, and tucked it under her arm. Kathleen desired some one to throw the tell-tale box away, and then she collected her followers round her. "Now," she said, "Rule One. To stick through thick and thin each to the other." "Yes!" cried every voice. "Rule Two. If possible, never to quarrel each with the other."
He was always with Francoise, who ran off with that man Daumon. Oh, yes, I know him now; here, Bruno, here!" The dog rushed to her, and, stooping down, she caressed him, thus hoping to conceal her tell-tale face. Octave drew his wife's arm within his without another word. A strange feeling of doubt had arisen in his mind.
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