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Good thing Slade wasn't in earshot. You'd have a bullet in you by now. You may yet. What are you aiming to do?" "You say you heard me," said Lennon. "I spoke clearly." "Do you count Dad in the gang?" "Don't you?" In the brightening light of red dawn Lennon saw the girl's eyes cloud with anguish. At sight of her grief and suffering a wave of compassion surged up within him.
Now an elderly gentleman in silver spectacles, with pumps on his feet, and a roquelaure with a fur-collar over his shoulders, and an expression of unutterable anguish in his countenance, holds out his hand and bows his head as we pass, and groans audibly the very instant we are within earshot of a groan; which is a distance of about ten inches in a London atmosphere.
For she will have forgotten thee by to-morrow; and this she knoweth; wherefore just now, when thou stoodest out of earshot, she was bidding me, amongst other matters, to bring thee before her to-morrow morning, and tell her the tale of thee, that she might call it to mind then what she had will to this morning.
Then they looked about them again for some one to guide them, and particularly for the Corporal; but the Corporal, as luck would have it, though he was trying his best to find them, never came within eyesight or earshot of them.
For a long while past she had been aware that her life was a noise, but it had seemed to be very much about something; a noise, indeed, about so much that she felt she must get out of earshot for a little or she would be completely, and perhaps permanently, deafened. But suppose it was only a noise about nothing? She had not had a question like that in her mind before. It had made her feel lonely.
Since that time, he had never been happy when any one was in earshot of a lesson; but to-day he had no escape Harry lay on the rug reading, and Ethel sat forlorn over her books on the sofa. Tom, however, was bright enough, declined his Greek nouns irreproachably, and construed his Latin so well, that Ethel could not help putting in a word or two of commendation, and auguring the third form.
Is th' haase o' fire, or has th' missus taan her bed? But Matt was beyond earshot before the old man finished his rude rebuke. Throughout the whole of his journey Matt's mind was a prey to wild and foreboding passion passion largely the product of a rude and superstitious mind. Questions painful, if not foolish, haunted and tormented him. Would Miriam die?
"Not an idea in my head all day," he said to himself with drowsy delight. Four days of this, and on the fifth came the outside world in the form of Burdick, chairman of the county committee of his party in the county in which his farm lay. They sat on the fence under the big maple, out of earshot of the others. "Larkin's come out for John Frankfort for the nomination for governor," said Burdick.
Assingham suggested that she too was still on the ramparts though her gallantry proved indeed after a moment to consist not a little of her curiosity. She had looked about and seen their companions beyond earshot. "Don't you really want us to go ?" Maggie found a faint smile. "Do you really want to ?" It made her friend colour. "Well then no. But we WOULD, you know, at a look from you.
"She certainly isn't the woman we are after," he remarked to Duvall, as soon as they were out of earshot. "No. It must be Miss Ford," the detective replied. "Suppose we go to the developing and finishing department," Baker suggested. "It is time all our people were on hand. Mr. Emmett, who is in charge there, can tell us about Miss Ford."
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