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They cannot get out of this room, if we keep the door." "Not without breaking their neck from the window," replied Rookwood. "What is that small door there at the side?" said Sir George Barkley. "Let some one see!" "'Tis nothing but a cupboard," said Sir John Fenwick "I examined it the other night, for fear of eavesdroppers. There is no way out."
He may have been judged hasty in resigning his place; he may have committed himself in expressing his opinions too strongly before strangers, whose true character as spies and eavesdroppers he was too high-minded to suspect.
She was angry with Lilly for talking with Lieutenant Preston; and, indeed, I must not, in honor, reveal all I read in Annette's mind. If I found there her opinion of me; if, on the whole, it lowered my opinion of myself, I must take refuge in the old proverb, "Eavesdroppers never hear any good of themselves."
Ogleby," said Carton quickly. "Both of them know as much about how experts use those little mechanical eavesdroppers as anyone except the inventor." We bowed and waited for an explanation. "You understand," continued Carton slowly to us in a tone that enjoined secrecy, "Mrs. Ogleby, who is a friend of Mr.
Brown was removed from the Ballarat district, and did duty for many months in Melbourne as a lieutenant, and ranked next after Murden. Just then a few customers entered the store, and we hastened to attend upon them, and after their wants were supplied, and the place cleared of eavesdroppers, Mr. Brown drew his chair up to ours, and asked,
"We have no eavesdroppers," he said, and his voice bespoke his contempt of the gravity of this news of which Sir Rowland made so much in anticipation. He was acquainted with Sir Rowland's ways, and the importance of them. "What are you considering?" he inquired. "To end the rebellion," answered Blake, his voice cautiously lowered. Richard laughed outright.
Satisfied that there were no eavesdroppers near, Lieutenant Cantor stepped back, facing the young ensign, whom he looked over with an expression of mingled hate and distress. "I believe we have met before," said Cantor, with a quick, hissing indrawing of his breath. "To my very great regret, we have, sir," Darrin answered, coldly. "Last night!" "Yes, sir." "And you behaved abominably, Darrin!"
"Yes, sir." "I I presume presume, you know that you are able to hear any ah conversation that may take place in that room, unless er the conversation is guarded." "Not unless we take particular pains to listen," said Merry. "Even then, it is doubtful if we can hear anything plainly." "And we are not eavesdroppers," cut in Diamond. "We do not take pains to listen."
Norine cast a startled glance at the big fellow. "It's a fact," he asserted, doggedly. "I might as well declare myself here and now. There's always a gang of eavesdroppers hanging around you." "He means you, Leslie," O'Reilly said. "Hadn't you better take a walk?" Branch rolled a hostile eye at the artilleryman, and his lip curled. "I'll not move. When he gets through, I'll propose."
Gertrude shamelessly listened in and got for her comforting what eavesdroppers are proverbially supposed to get to wit, unpleasant hearing; the Union Government had 'done nothing' in the West. "We looked at each other in dismay. If the Government had failed to carry the West, it was defeated. "'Canada is disgraced in the eyes of the world, said Gertrude bitterly.
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