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Updated: June 17, 2025
If you must eavesdrop, keep quiet about it now and hereafter, I beg." "I was not eavesdropping," I screamed. "I have been painting out here all the afternoon, and Mrs. Austin knows it, and so might you. You are always accusing me of doing wrong and mean things that I would cut off my" hesitating for a comparison "my curls rather than do. Let me alone!"
Deep voice and thin, sweet tinkle of baby voice joined in a curiously harmonious chorus that rang through the window pane into the two pairs of listening ears. It was a new light in which to see a new sound in which to hear John Bradford. Miss Theodosia had a guilty consciousness of being an eavesdropper, yet she kept on eavesdropping.
Our deepest student of human nature makes his favourite Beatrice, on receiving a hint, run down the garden like a lapwing, to do a bit of deliberate eavesdropping; whilst her masculine counterpart, Benedick, has to hear his share of the disclosure inadvertently and reluctantly. Similarly, in Love's Labour Lost, when the mis-delivered letter is handed to Lord Boyet to read, he says:
There is, for example, that lively paper in the Connoisseur which gives an eavesdropping report of the behaviour and conversation of a London merchant and his wife and two daughters. The Connoisseur took notes from the adjoining box. "After some talk, 'Come, come, said the old don, 'it is high time, I think, to go to supper.
I could overhear the men debate the character of Captain Trent, and set forth competing theories of where the opium was stowed; and as they seemed to have been eavesdropping on ourselves, I thought little shame to prick up my ears when I had the return chance of spying upon them, in this way. I could diagnose their temper and judge how far they were informed upon the mystery of the Flying Scud.
That worthy gentleman had, by dint of watching and eavesdropping, ascertained that he was not mentioned by name in Meg Merrilies's dying declaration a circumstance certainly not owing to any favourable disposition towards him, but to the delay of taking her regular examination, and to the rapid approach of death.
A moment when, beyond the thought of the nearby brigand or the possibility of an eavesdropping ray trained now upon my cubby a moment while Anita and I held each other, and whispered those things which could mean nothing to the world, but which were all the world to us! Then it was she whose wits brought us back from the shining fairyland of our love, into the sinister reality of the Planetara.
I have just committed another abominable action; and I cry peccavi!" He smote himself upon the breast, and sighed portentously. "I accuse myself of eavesdropping." "What is your meaning?" She had now risen to her feet. "Nay, but I am requited," the Duke reassured her, and laughed with discreetly tempered bitterness.
Kent never ceased to mourn that he had missed the affair. He confided the fact to Lydia one Sunday that he had told Levine of their eavesdropping on him in the woods. "What did he say?" asked Lydia, flushing. "Gave me this nice fat job," replied Kent. Lydia stared, then she sighed. "Well, I don't understand men at all!" And Kent laughed. Lydia saw a good deal of Billy during the summer.
"Poor creature, poor creature and unfortunate man. So he has brought her here after all. I am afraid, Father, I did not do right when I omitted telling him the exact situation. What shall we do? We cannot possibly stay." Mark felt that he was eavesdropping, but everything had happened so quickly that there had been no chance to escape. He could not help hearing.
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