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'Well, let be how 'twill, what was he gettin' after when he said what he said to me? Jabez insisted. 'I dunno; unless you tell me what manner o' words he said to you. Jabez drew back from the hedge all hedges are nests of treachery and eavesdropping and moved to an open cattle-lodge in the centre of the field. 'No need to go ferretin' around, said Jesse.
Of course I could not carry Mary Stuart's long train up the staircase without a page to help me." "And he is here, in the palace?" "Of course he is: where else should the child be but here with me? And, as I was not anxious to have him eavesdropping about your cabinet while we were conversing, I gave him in charge to Victorine." "I shall discharge Beppo," growled the marquis. "How dared he "
Ashamed to have been thus unintentionally led into eavesdropping, Adams coughed, and made as much noise as possible while stooping to pass under the low entrance to the cave. There was no door of any kind, but a turn in the short passage concealed the cave itself from view. Before entering, Adams stopped. "May I come in, sir?" he called out. "Is that you, Adams? By all means come in."
That woman should be taught what it costs to play the traitor. All this in the quite small pause before her aunt's voice spoke again. "Unless she's got wind of our coming and flown," it said. "Our" coming? Who was the other? Betty was eavesdropping then? How dishonourable! Well, it is. And she was. "I hope to Heaven she's safe," said another voice. Oh it was her step-father!
"But I assure you, Arina Prohorovna, nobody is eavesdropping. It's only your fancy. Besides, the windows are high, and people would not understand if they did hear." "We don't understand ourselves," some one muttered. "But I tell you one must always be on one's guard. I mean in case there should be spies," she explained to Verhovensky.
The girls looked at one another with startled glances. Cora bent forward eagerly in order to better hear what else was said. She had no compunctions as to eavesdropping, feeling that it was justified under the circumstances. "They must mean Denny Shane, the old fisherman," whispered Bess. "Hush!" cautioned Cora.
"The police!" She seemed startled, but recovered herself. "I don't care for the police," she declared defiantly. "You might not, but Walter Franklin might." "Who is he? Never heard of him." "Never heard of your uncle?" said Giles, and then wondered how he could let her know that he had heard it without confessing to the eavesdropping.
While he had no intention of spying or eavesdropping, their voices reached him distinctly and he could not help hearing what passed between them. "Have you been up to the house, Barry?" were Viola's first words as she stopped in front of the man who barred the way. Lapelle did not change his position. His chin was lowered and he was looking at her through narrowed, unsmiling eyes. "Yes, I have."
The mother, if she suspected that any prohibited frolic was likely to be carried on, at a late hour, would tell her daughters that she was going to bed, and would shut herself up for a couple of hours in her bed-room, and then steal out eavesdropping, peeping through key-holes and listening at door-handles; and the daughters, knowing their mother's practice, would not come forth till the listening and peeping had been completed, and till they had ascertained, by some infallible means, that the old woman was between the sheets.
"Thank you," said Halloway, coming quickly to her side, anxious to avoid further eavesdropping. "Thank you I mean for thinking I might do better." "That is not much to be grateful for, I am afraid," replied Gerald, "since it implies, you know, that you have not done well." "I hope you like uncompromising truth, Mr. Halloway," said De Forest, leaning forward to look at him across Gerald.
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