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Her lips were firmly set, but her eyes were kind. A sudden desire for her sympathy weakened me. "Lady Angela," I said, "I must talk to some one. I do not know whom to trust. I do not know who is honest. You are the only person whom I dare speak to at all." She looked round cautiously. We were out of the plantation now, in the open park, where eavesdropping was impossible.
Creed testified the knot was one he had tied many days before. Ike was a timorous old man, with a wholesome fear of his employer, and he supported the testimony and made no reference to his eavesdropping of the previous evening, though he heard Creed swear before the jury that he did not recognize the tramp he had fed and lodged.
If criminals would always tell on themselves as plainly as Big Swankie did, there would be no use for lawyers." "Swankie would not have spoken so freely," said Minnie, with a laugh, "if he had known that we were listening." "That's true, girl," said the captain, with sudden gravity; "and I don't feel quite easy in my mind about that same eavesdropping.
He departed, leaving the two women speechless. After a moment, Miss Ingate said dryly: "He was so very peculiar I knew he must belong to these parts." "How did he know I left my blue frock at Miss Pannell's?" cried Audrey. "I never told him." "He must have been eavesdropping!" cried Miss Ingate. "He never found the key in your frock.
He could not believe it possible that Teddy was guilty of eavesdropping, and yet the evidence seemed to point strongly in that direction. Taking firm hold of his companion's arm he led him along toward Mr. Sparling's cabin. "What's all this row about?" growled Teddy. "That is what I hope you will be able to explain to Mr. Sparling's satisfaction," replied Phil.
Michael was sitting bolt upright on the couch now, utterly forgetful of the dishonor of eavesdropping, fairly holding his breath to listen and straining his ears that he might lose no slightest word.
She was the playmate of the sisters, and young Dan was the torment of their lives, jumping out at them from unexpected corners, eavesdropping to learn their little secrets and harassing them in ways common to boys of all generations, and she never hesitated to inform him that he was "the hatefullest fellow she ever knew."
I was about to ask him whether he meant that the boy Pierre had been guilty of eavesdropping and treachery, and to reprove him for that unworthy suspicion, when there was a noise at the gate. Looking thither, I saw two of my men, Sabray and Roquelin, conducting into the courtyard three starved-looking persons, who leaned wearily on one another's shoulders, and seemed ready to drop with fatigue.
I wish you could have heard it." "How wonderful!" I said. "Do you mean we're overhearing Portsmouth ships trying to talk to each other that we're eavesdropping across half South England?" "Just that. Their transmitters are all right, but their receivers are out of order, so they only get a dot here and a dash there. Nothing clear." "Why is that?" "God knows and Science will know to-morrow.
But such lucky eavesdropping only happens in stories and plays; and for lack of it this youth is in a fair way to marry a chit of a girl who does not think half so much of him as you do, and of whom he will never think a quarter what he would of you. He is not, probably, entirely stupid either.
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