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They left her at the corner of High Street, and the flurried little woman hurried home. "I do believe there is a romance there," whispered the teacher, when Miss 'Rill was out of earshot. "So there is. Didn't you know that years and years ago she and Mr. Drugg were engaged?" cried Janice. "Why, yes, they were.
And then Tavannes passed out of the blinding sunshine, and out of earshot of their babble, and had plain in his sight across the quadrangle, the new facade, Italian, graceful, of the Renaissance; which rose in smiling contrast with the three dark Gothic sides that now, the central tower removed, frowned unimpeded at one another. But what was this which lay along the foot of the new Italian wall?
What made Jack a trifle anxious was the presence of the gaol keeper in the corridor. He was a sneaking sort of man, soft of tread and oily of speech and inclined to curry favor with those in authority. Councilor Peter Forbes had tactfully withdrawn this person beyond earshot but he began to edge toward the cell.
As a precaution against miscarriage of this plan through jealousy on your part, I was ordered to oblige you to obey me." "And if I refuse?" "Your widow will then be the individual most concerned. Be good enough to take pen and paper, and write a letter to my dictation." Jeremy went to the door, which was partly open, made sure that the servant was out of earshot, and slammed it tight.
Within five minutes he had shuffled his way through the garden gate, which was fortunately open, and reached the road. The exertion was so laborious that he sat down again upon his portable seat and reckoned up his chances. Fear lent him wings, though of a very elementary type, and as soon as he judged he was out of earshot he backed up against a tree and vigorously banged the chair against it.
Of these plans he said no word to his chums, for there was more than a chance that the human mystery of the woods was even then within earshot, off under the shadows among the trees. At last the meal was finished, this time without the help of the prowler.
He stammered out a few inarticulate words of gratitude to Hocker and Jeffries and then approached Ned. "This is your doin'," he said brokenly. "You saved me from goin' to jail. I shan't forget it " He choked and broke off short. Ned drew him down the wasteway to a little clump of bushes, out of earshot of the others.
At last, seeing the ship still bore on her course, and was now swiftly drawing out of earshot, one of them I know not which it was leapt to his feet with a hoarse cry, whipped his musket to his shoulder, and sent a shot whistling over Silver's head and through the main-sail.
So saying he slammed the door, and we heard him switching his boots as he passed along the street under the windows, whistling the air of "The girls we left behind us," followed, before he was quite out of earshot, by "Oh my love is like the red red rose, that's newly sprung in June."
At the top stood as fine a constellation of marine stars as ever sang together of a morning on a King's ship. Every one who could get within earshot found that his work took him aft.
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