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Updated: May 1, 2025
"The cloud is not moving; the sun has not stopped! It is going down and we shall soon be in utter darkness. Oh, it is awful to die in this way!" The king had just returned, and he over-heard her words. He came hastily to the edge of the balcony, and gazed at the sun. The others held their breath and waited. His face became more rigid; he swayed a little as he turned to her.
Ant. Fran. And so, Mistress, come your ways to your Chamber. Jul. Cla. Ah, Antonio, I find by that sad look of yours, you have over-heard our hasty Doom. Ant.
A hard one, too. It'll be a sharp man that does for old Joe Bardi." "Five dollars," came again from the squat figure with its ratlike eyes, and the young man in evening dress paled a little. He had over-heard the colloquy between Indiman and the native Abingdonian, and it is difficult to regard with equanimity the prospect of a trip before the mast to China, let us say.
"And do you expect to hear the language of nature here, with the buzz of empty tongues and the echo of unmeaning laughs in the ear; where, if a word of sentiment were over-heard, it would be bandied from lip to lip with hollow mockery?
His daughter, it seems, over-heard the villain bribing the ruffian to commit this foul and terrible act, and she flew to the mine directly. She dispatched some miners to seize that hellish villain, and she went down the mine to save her father." "Ah!" said Walter, trembling all over. "She has never been seen since." The Colonel's head sank for a moment on his breast.
But he interrupted me with a savage outburst. 'The people? he cried. 'What people? There are neither men nor women in that house of Satan's! What? have you lived here so long, and never heard? And here he put his mouth to my ear and whispered, as if even the fowls of the mountain might have over-heard and been stricken with horror.
And yet to relate a long story of her passion, and his ingratitude, said mademoiselle de Coigney, was I last night dragged into a dark corner, and deprived for an hour together of all the pleasures of the masquerade: it seems she had over-heard some gallant things between him and the daughter of the count de Granpree, and that gave her the occasion of running into a recapitulation of all the professions of constancy he had made to herself, the proofs she had given him of a too easy belief, and the little regard he now paid to her peace of mind.
Of course, if the patient is desperately ill, you cannot do this, nor will it then be necessary. It is a good plan to wait for the doctor at the head of the stairs, or at the foot, if you are likely to be over-heard, and tell him there all you could not say before the patient as to her condition, etc.
"'This is not a place, Mr Slick, for foundlings, I'de have you to know, she said, with an air of disgust, 'but children whose parents are of the first class of society. If, and she paused and looked at me scrutinisin', 'if your proposals are of that nature, walk in here, Sir, if you please, where our conversation will not be over-heard. Pray be seated.
"Dear Edith," said I, putting the note in her hand, and an arm round her neck, "it was a gift of consolation you brought me;" and then I told her all that I had over-heard, and of the exceeding bitterness of my anguish. "I know it, mamma and I both know it, brother told us. I did not speak of it, for you looked as if you had forgotten it after I came in, and I did not wish you to recall it.
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