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Updated: June 11, 2025
"I heard my name," he said. "Forgive me if I am interrupting you. I had no wish to play the eavesdropper." Pauline took a quick step backwards. Even in that tense moment of surprise, Rochester found himself able to notice the color fading from her cheeks. He turned upon the newcomer, and there was something like fury in his tone. "What the devil are you doing here, Saton?" he asked.
"You shall not say such things of M'sieu Paddington! He is brave and good, while you you are a spy, an eavesdropper, a delver into the private affairs of others. I do not know what this trouble may be, which Miss Lawton is in, and I am sorry for her, that she should suffer, but I shall have nothing more to do with the case, nor with you, m'sieu! Au revoir!"
Their joint committee of the two Houses reported against the scheme; whereupon each House carried a secret adverse vote by a large majority. But, just before these votes were taken, a Puritan member from a country district wrestled in what he thought confidential prayer with such loud ejaculations that an eavesdropper overheard him and passed the secret on.
He had been figuring now with Mamma for a pencil went clattering to the floor. "And something especial," he proclaimed bitterly, "will have to be done for Julietta!" At that the eavesdropper could smile, a faint little smile of shy pride and self-reliance. Nothing especial would have to be done for her!
"Is it a bear, or a brigand?" whispered Francisco, hurriedly, sounding the uttermost depths of his terror in the two words. "It is an eavesdropper," said Juanita, impetuously; "and who and why, I intend to know," and she started towards the thicket. "Do not leave me, good Juanita," said the young acolyte, grasping the girl's skirt.
The daughters of Zion were haughty and walked with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes; Sarah was an eavesdropper in her own tent, when the angel spoke with Abraham; Miriam was a talebearer, accusing Moses; Rachel was envious of her sister Leah; Eve put out her hand to take the forbidden fruit, and Dinah was a gadabout.
Racey Dawson, at first minded to reveal his presence in the corral, thought better of it almost immediately. While not by habit an eavesdropper he felt no shame in fortuitously overhearing anything Lanpher or the stranger might be moved to say.
Louis, when her song attracted an ear in a second-story room under whose window she was passing. As usual, it was fitted to the passing event: "Apportez moi mo' sabre, Ba boum, ba boum, boum, boum." "Run, fetch that girl here," said Dr. Keene to the slave woman who had just entered his room with a pitcher of water. "Well, old eavesdropper," he said, as Clemence came, "what is the scandal to-day?"
"I am afraid," said she in an even voice, so quietly pitched as to be inaudible to any eavesdropper. "This becomes a task greater than I had dreamed, more than my wits can cope with. Monsieur Duchemin...." She hesitated. He bowed slightly. "If mademoiselle can make any use of my poor abilities, she has but to command me."
What council could it be that gathered there, that little body of men beneath the significant white Atlas, secluded from every eavesdropper in this impressive spaciousness? And why should he be brought to them, and be looked at strangely and spoken of inaudibly? Howard appeared beneath, walking quickly across the polished floor towards them.
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