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He felt that he ought to tell his new acquaintance that he knew who he was, that, however trivial their conversation might be, it somehow resembled eavesdropping to talk to a chance fellow-passenger as if he were a complete stranger. But it required again a certain effort to make the announcement.
Percy turned and gazed after her; then followed a few paces and watched again, until she disappeared under a wide portico. Heaving a sigh of relief he turned back toward the arbor. "I want no eavesdropping," he muttered; "and that minx might listen if she had time. She is no more a French maid than I am; she forgot her monsieur just now.
"Not eavesdropping, but Coleman left the door slightly ajar; she had come back up here to get some papers from Judge Regis, and, hearing such interesting conversation going on, naturally she listened. What will you take for these letters?" she demanded. "I'd have to think about it," he said, sitting down. "I'll buy them now or not at all'" she said. "Aim to publish them?" he asked, grinning.
"Dick," I said thoughtfully, after a moment's pause, "were you eavesdropping when you heard all this?" "Why, no, of course not!" he exclaimed indignantly. "I was in the room, reading a book, and I couldn't help hearing all they said, though they were talking in undertones." I turned over in my bed, and looked into his eyes for an instant or two.
Maybright, she coolly waited in an adjoining room, and when the good woman returned, once more placed herself within earshot. No Maybright would dream of eavesdropping, but Flower's upbringing had been decidedly lax with regard to this and other matters. In full possession, therefore, of the facts of the catastrophe which was to overpower poor little Fly and injure Dr.
"You will pardon me, gentlemen, for eavesdropping, but I was curious to know what you thought of this remarkable young man who calls himself 'A. Jones." Arthur faced the intruder with a frown. He objected to being startled in this manner. "You are a detective?" he asked. "Oh, scarcely that, sir," Le Drieux replied in a deprecating way.
Miss Adair was silent for a little time, waiting for the lapsed tuberculotic discussion to revive. When it was once more in full swing, she asked quickly: "What is the programme for to-day? Must we all stay in the car as you intimated yesterday?" Ford glanced across the table to make sure that Penfield was not eavesdropping. "It will not be necessary.
'I was coming up to my room, and I heard a strange voice in here, so I thought I would take a look in. Mr Bunner laughed easily. 'You thought I might have been eavesdropping, perhaps, he said. 'No, sir; I heard a word or two about a pistol this one, I guess and that's all.
But, lo! this child makes his dramatic entrance into the presence of the court, and, under the inspired guidance of defendant's counsel, tells his story of eavesdropping, and when it is done my learned friend has the temerity to ask you to throw away your reason, to dismiss logic from your minds, to trample law under your feet, to scatter the evidence to the four winds of heaven, and to believe what?
Armine's obvious terror at his appearance; her lies, her omission to tell him her husband was ill until she realized that he Isaacson had already heard of the illness in Luxor; her pretence that his dangerous malady was only a slight indisposition caused by grief at the death of Lord Harwich; her endeavor to prevent Isaacson from coming on board the Loulia; the note she had sent by the felucca; his walk by night on the river bank till he came to the dahabeeyah, his eavesdropping, and how the words he overheard decided him to insist on seeing Nigel; the interview with Mrs.
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