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Updated: June 12, 2025
She was grown so used to playing the spy that she could not help spying on her mistress as well. An uncommon sort, was Ragnhild. I put on a lofty air at first and would have none of her tale-bearing, thank you, listening at keyholes. Fie! But how could she help it, she replied. Her orders were to bring up the letter as soon as her mistress put out the light, and not before.
A. Yes. Four or five times. Q. When did she call last? A. On Christmas Eve. Q. At what hour? A. She came at seven, and went away at eight. I know that because she had supper with Mr. Wrent. Q. Did she leave the house? A. Yes. I let her out myself. Q. Did you ever hear any conversation between them? A. No. Mr. Wrent took care of that. I never got any chance of listening at keyholes with him.
She can see more through keyholes than others do through barn doors, and her scent is phenomenal!" Joan hugged her knees and looked grave. "I I hate to snoop, Pat," she whispered. "You don't have to I got Hannah's snoops for you. They're innocent enough really, they're the soundest of sound little nuts. "Mrs. Tweksbury had a romance! Don't grin, Joan.
They appear to be able to leak through keyholes, as nothing in the houses they go to is ever disturbed." "Anyhow, they have latchkeys," retorted Ruthven Smith, with what for him might be considered gaiety of manner. "The thief or thieves who relieved me of my pearls or rather, my employer's pearls apparently walked in as a member of the household might have done."
On the other hand, many of the papers criticised the work in a hostile and violent manner. It was, they said, a breach of official confidence for a man in Greville's position to keep a journal at all. Greville whose name it was fatally easy to rhyme to Devil was described as a man delighting in listening at keyholes, and habitually misrepresenting the only half-heard secrets.
On reaching them, she broke the silence, saying: "Listening, Charmian, is unworthy of a Queen; but if all listeners heard things so painful, one need no longer guard keyholes and chinks of doors. I must recover my calmness ere I receive Eros. One thing more. Is Barine's hiding-place secure?" "I don't know Archibius says so." "Very well.
"It's full of cockroaches and mildew, if that's what you mean?" "The best company we could possibly have," said the taller man. "Cockroaches and blackbeetles don't talk and they don't listen at keyholes. What's more, if they trouble you, you can put your heel on them. Now let's see the landlord and see what he's got to offer us in the way of rooms.
More than once they have witnessed it, remembering how in their house, near Assuncion, it drove the dust through the keyholes of me doors, finding its way into every crack and crevice, making ridges across the floor, just as snow in northern lands of which, however, they know nothing, save from what they have read, or been told by one who will tell them of such things no more.
There is no escaping out of his hands, for his nose is nine thousand miles long, and can go down chimneys, and through keyholes, upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's chamber, examining all little boys, and the little boys' tutors likewise. But when he is thrashed so Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid has promised me I shall have the thrashing of him: and if I don't lay it on with a will it's a pity."
Then he caught the senior dayroom making a row of some sort. He said it was perfectly deafening; but we couldn't hear it in our studies. I believe he goes round the house, listening at keyholes. That was on the 16th. On the 22nd he found a chap in Kennedy's dormitory wandering about the house at one in the morning.
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