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'Excuse me, it said, ruffling its golden feathers and sneezing softly; 'looking through keyholes always gives me a cold in my golden eyes. So Cyril looked. 'I see something grey moving, said he. 'It's a zoological garden of some sort, I bet, said Robert, when he had taken his turn. And the soft rustling, bustling, ruffling, scuffling, shuffling, fluffling noise went on inside.
"Marchioness," said Mr. Swiveller, rising, "the word of a gentleman is as good as his bond sometimes better, as in the present case, where his bond might prove but a doubtful sort of security. I'm your friend, and I hope we shall play many more rubbers together. But, Marchioness," added Richard, "it occurs to me that you must be in the constant habit of airing your eye at keyholes to know this."
Meanwhile, however, while Kit was being found guilty, a young servant in the employ of the Brasses was also guilty of listening at keyholes, listening to a conversation which was not intended for her ears, in which she heard the entire plot by which Mr. Brass had entrapped and condemned Kit.
Hoard was of opinion that it would be found stowed away in a strong-room beneath the cabin deck, in the position usually occupied by the lazarette, and there, sure enough, I found such a room a solidly built structure of hard timber, fully six inches thick, plated with iron, the door being secured by three massive iron bars passed through thick iron bands, and secured at either end by heavy iron padlocks, six in all, the keyholes of which were sealed with great seals the size of the palm of my hand.
'They'se another hero down in Halstead Sthreet that's been marrid. Go down an' shivaree him. An' you, me thrusted collagues iv th' press, disperse to ye'er homes, I'd say. 'Th' keyholes is closed f'r th' night, I'd say. An' thin I'd bolt th' dure an' I'd say, 'George, take off ye'er coat an' pull up to th' fire. Here's a noggin' iv whisky near ye'er thumb an' a good seegar f'r ye to smoke.
Oh, she had found lots of things up in her room a bag with Engineer Lassen's initials worked on, a book with his full name in, some sweets in an envelope with his writing and she had burnt it all. A strange girl, Ragnhild yes! Was there ever such an instinct as hers? It was like the devil turned monk. Ragnhild, who made such use herself of the thick red stair-carpet and the keyholes everywhere!
Any further doubts I might have felt were dispelled by Madame Leon, who was always well informed thanks to her habit of listening at the keyholes. 'They are talking of marrying you to the Marquis de Valorsay I heard them, she remarked to me. "However, the information did not terrify me. I had profited by the time allowed me for reflection, and I had decided upon the course I should pursue.
These Parisian cockneys are sometimes real anthropophagi. I cannot conceive how men, Christians, can make such speculations." "That is true." "As for myself," continued D'Artagnan, "if I inhabited that house, on days of execution I would shut it up to the very keyholes; but I do not inhabit it." "And you let the garret for five hundred livres?" "To the ferocious cabaretier, who sub-lets it.
So she hastened to smooth the bed again, and snatch the napkins off the keyholes, and unlock the doors lest her very caution should excite suspicion. Then at length she took time to wash the railroad dust from her face, and brush it from her hair. And finally she passed into her sitting-room where she found the table laid for her single breakfast.
We really thought that this shallow philosophy had completely died out, and that every educated person had been brought to comprehend the uses of Beauty and Luxury. Mr. Dexter's "Street Thoughts" is a silly proof that there are men yet living whose theory of social ethics may apparently be summed up thus: Live meanly, be afraid of God, and listen at keyholes. The Mathematical Monthly.
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