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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Jack," said she, "you are jealous!" "I wish, Alicia," said the King testily, "that you would not call me 'Jack'; at least, not after not where any of the servants may come in and overhear us. It would not sound seemly." "My dear John," said the Queen, "don't be so absurd. You know perfectly well that it's just that which makes us most popular.
They sat down to their dinner in the garden, but the rain began to fall and drove them indoors. There were a few people dining at the same hour, but none near enough to overhear them. Alike in the garden and the dining-room, Adele Tace kept up the same note of ridicule and disbelief. She had been carefully tutored for her work.
I used to picture the way that I would act under such circumstances; how I would begin at the bottom and keep rising until I reached the highest round of success. . . . One day while at work in the coal mine I happened to overhear two miners talking about a great school for coloured people somewhere in Virginia.
So saying the lady tripped lightly away, and began coquettishly sleeking her locks in the smooth mirror of a marble basin, whose waters trickled over the margin upon the grass below, ever and anon glancing archly towards the stranger, and sufficiently at hand to overhear all that was said.
"'It is one of the penalties one always has to pay for a woman's fame, I said to myself, one day, as I sat sipping my chocolate, while I was forced to overhear from a neighboring alcove an insolent young dandy tell of various scenes, betraying passionate love on both sides, which he had probably manufactured to make himself of consequence.
We expected you till the seventh hour of the night, yet you came not." "I will tell you, Hortensia," he replied; "as we drive along; for I had rather do so, where there be no ears to overhear us. You must let me be your charioteer to-day, and your venerable grey-headed coachman shall ride with my wild imp Myron, in the car, if you will permit it." "Willingly," she replied.
However that might have been, they seemed now to be working in unison. Only the day before he had happened to overhear them conversing in low tones, and the language, he would have sworn, was neither Eskimo, English, nor Pidgen. Yet he did not question the boy's statement that he was an American Eskimo.
"Ah, madame, you reproach me with an hour spent at your table, and you expect me to overlook crime in consideration of the common courtesy extended to me as a man of your own rank. I was so fortunate as to overhear the little discussion that preceded my entrance here. Rise, madame, I am not fond of Spanish customs, nor do I like to see women on their knees."
Any six-year-old child has, likewise, had much practice in detecting the subject of short conversations, especially of those of interest to him. If he happens to overhear a conversation between his parent and teacher touching a possible punishment for himself, he can be trusted to sum it up and get the gist of it all, even though some of the words do not reach him.
"We are speaking of the Stockheath breach-of-promise case, Miss Simpson, of which you doubtless read in the newspapers. Lord Stockheath is a nephew of ours. I fancy his lordship was greatly shocked at the occurrence." "He was," chimed in Mr. Judson from down the table. "I happened to overhear him speaking of it to young Freddie.
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