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Later, Billy Manners himself came to Jack and said, good-naturedly: "That was one on us, Sheldon, but I don't hold it up against you. I would like to know how you suspected us, however. Have you been to other schools where they practised this sort of thing?" "No, I have never been away to school before but if fellows will talk of their plans they need not be astonished if somebody overhears."
I was much pleased with the dancing faun; and still better with the Lotti, or wrestlers, the attitudes of which are beautifully contrived to shew the different turns of the limbs, and the swelling of the muscles: but, what pleased me best of all the statues in the Tribuna was the Arrotino, commonly called the Whetter, and generally supposed to represent a slave, who in the act of whetting a knife, overhears the conspiracy of Catiline.
The lines run as follows: "Behold, the puny Child of Man Sits by Time's boundless sea, And gathers in his feeble hand Drops of Eternity. "He overhears some broken words Of whispered mystery He writes them in a tiny book And calls it 'History!
As my hold-up comes chargin' an' shootin' towards the stage, I overhears a scream inside, an' the next moment that young female passenger opens the door an' comes scamperin' out. "'If she tries she couldn't have selected no worse epock. She hits the ground, an' the second she does for I'm lookin' over at her at the time she stops one of that hold-up's bullets an' goes down with a great cry.
In a gallery of the Palais Royal he overhears two friends talking earnestly about the king and the Count of Artois. He follows them into a coffee-house, sits at the table next to them, calls for his half-dish and his small glass of cognac, takes up a journal, and seems occupied with the news.
Miss Ruth overhears him and draws me aside, and, putting her hand upon my arm winningly, she lifts her pretty face to mine and says, "Jasper, you will save them!" I am going ashore, and Captain Nepeen goes with me. At ten o'clock. We put off a boat at ten o'clock and rowed straight for the open beach. It was a gloriously clear night, with a heaven of blazing stars and a sea like flowing silver.
We returned to Sir Henry's library. It was my turn now to lock the door. "Why do you do that?" he asked. "Because I wish to be quite certain that no one overhears our conversation." "What have you got to say?" "I have a plan to propose to you." "What is it?" "I want you to change bedrooms with me to-night." "What can you mean? what will Lady Studley say?"
The stranger overhears them, and concludes that as she has been recreant to her former lover, so too she will be untrue to him. He decides to leave her; for if he should remain, her penalty would be eternal death.
He broke off as words in English came softly from the loudspeaker: "XX-2 answering XX-1. Do you hear me?" "Yes. Give me protected connection. Highly important no outsider overhears." "All right," the gentle voice answered. "Protected. Go ahead, old man." The Hawk relaxed and his face softened. "How are you, Eliot?" he asked almost tenderly.
"'About them serpents, I overhears Jaybird say to him one evenin' while we-alls is settin' 'round; all but Moore an' Tutt, who's ridin' herd; ''bout them serpents; a gent can't be too partic'lar. It looks like they has but one hope, which it's to crawl into a gent's blankets an' sleep some with him.
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