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I had no clear vision through my spy-hole, and knew not at the first watching whether the man I saw was asleep or awake. A finer inspection of him, made with a catlike poise as I knelt crouching at the door, showed me that he slept: had fallen to sleep with his fingers amongst the jewels a great rough dog of a man clutching wealth in his dreaming.
No, he had not been asleep; he had been dreaming with open eyes dreaming of filing, and it was all still to do. There stood the window-bars, untouched, strong and firm as ever. And there was ten striking from the clock-tower in the distance. He must get to work. He looked through the spy-hole, and, seeing that no one was watching, took one of the files from his breast.
The portress peered at the visitors through her spy-hole, and being satisfied that they were the expected guests, speedily opened the iron-clamped door. There was no one to interfere between father and daughter, sister and sister, in the convent parlour.
And thus I did go onward, and came presently to a part where the grey plain did stretch out a bareness into the Night Land to my front; so that my way ended, unless I did make a long passing round about. And I sat there among the moss-bushes, and did consider, and lookt out cunningly through a spy-hole of the bush in which I did sit.
And as Clerk Henriet went out with the moulds he took a long look through a private spy-hole at the lads of the choir who were sitting in the hall apportioned to their use. They were supposed to be busy with their lessons, and, indeed, a few were poring over their books with some show of studious absorption.
Thereupon, heaving a loud sigh, he removed his coat, looked about him as if in quest of some place to hang it, and finally, fixing his gaze upon the studded grating, stood upon the divan and hung his coat over the spy-hole! This accomplished, he turned. The table was slowly sinking through the gap in the floor beneath. Treading softly, he moved forward and seated himself cross-legged upon it!
If Secundra Dass knew and concealed his knowledge of English, Harris was a proficient in several of the tongues of India, and as his career in that part of the world had been a great deal worse than profligate, he had not thought proper to remark upon the circumstance. Each side had thus a spy-hole on the counsels of the other.
"C'est bien," said Madame Beck, when I came out of class, hot and a little exhausted. "Ca ira." She had been listening and peeping through a spy-hole the whole time. From that day I ceased to be nursery governess, and became English teacher. Madame raised my salary; but she got thrice the work out of me she had extracted from Mr. Wilson, at half the expense.
So distressing did this become that he was at last obliged to block up the spy-hole from his own side; and when he was thus secured from observation he spent a considerable portion of his time in contrite tears and prayer. Late in the evening Dr.
"Now to hit upon a good way to stop up that villainous spy-hole," said Harry, and looked around the cell for something which would answer the purpose. They could see nothing suitable until their eyes fell upon the accumulation of dirt upon the window-ledge. "Ah! I have it!" ejaculated Roger; and, climbing on Harry's shoulders, he reached down a handful of the dust.
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