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Updated: June 27, 2025
But I tell you, for a man who has live people to deal with, and hearts that are beating even while he handles them, a man who can go into families and pull up by the roots all the mysteries of their dead generations and their living sons' and daughters' secret history, responsible for what he says, here and elsewhere, open to a libel suit, if he isn't pretty careful in his personalities, or to a visit from a brother or other relative, wishing to know, Sir, and so forth, or to a paragraph in the leading journal of that whispering-gallery of a nation's gossip, Little Millionville, to the effect that We understand the personages alluded to in the tale now publishing in the Oceanic Miscellany are the Reverend Dr.
When June became perfect, and afterwards till nuts were ripe, my father loved to lie at full length upon the mossy and leaf-strewn floor, looking up at the green roof, the lofty whispering-gallery of vaulted boughs, with its azure lattices and descending sunlight-shafts; wrapped in imaginings some of which were afterwards to delight the world; but many more of them, no doubt, were fated to join the glorious company of untold tales.
Then I thought, What a thing this discovery of mine would be for political conspirators, to reverse the whispering-gallery of Dionysius, and, instead of the tyrant hearing the secrets of the people, the people hearing the secrets of the tyrant!
Something we would have given to see the little philosophical figure, with its steeple-hat and loose flowing skirts, and eyes in a fine frenzy, "pacing and repacing in austerest thought" that foolish Street; which to him was a true Delphic avenue, and supernatural Whispering-gallery, where the "Ghosts of Life" rounded strange secrets in his ear.
I would have these oracular gentry obliged to speak at a distance through a speaking-trumpet, or apply their lips to the walls of a whispering-gallery.
By listening intently they could hear almost what they said, for the stone stairway acted like a whispering-gallery, the voices echoing up it from wall to wall. "Why do they seek him here?" "They have sought elsewhere and not found him; and there is talk He claimed the memsahib as his share of the plunder. They think "
The stone steps and the stone floor of the hall, the stuccoed walls, and the coved stucco roof which held the skylight at the top, made a whispering-gallery of that gaunt staircase; and before Mr Sharnall had climbed half-way up he heard voices. They were voices in conversation; Anastasia had company. And then he heard that one was a man's voice. What right had any man to be in Westray's room?
Warwick is a great whispering-gallery, full of tale-bearing bats that peep and mutter." He lifted his head and listened. "Did you get that faint lift of the breeze in the pines just then? Now it's gone; but it was just like the distant sound of the surf. If my eyes were shut, I should think myself by the shore."
"There was another long, but easy, ascent to the 'whispering-gallery, which is a fine place from which to look down upon the interior of the church. The man in attendance looked like a respectable elderly gentleman. He told us to go to the opposite side of the gallery, and he would whisper to us. We went around, and, worn out with fatigue, dropped upon a bench.
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