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Updated: July 11, 2025
I'm no eavesdropper, but on the present occasion I'm mightily interested in seeing and hearing all that's going on." There was something unaccountable about Ned Foreman's dread of his professed relative. He passed into the reception-room, but he was trembling all over and his face was pale and frightened.
He turns the corner, the sound of his horn dies away. Sachs from behind his door has played the eavesdropper. "Evil doings are under way! No less than an elopement! Attention! This must not be!" Eva creeps forth from her father's house, disguised for the journey in Magdalene's things. "No stopping for reflection!" she cries; "Away from here! Away! Oh, that we were already off and afar!"
Of a surety the man that I let in that night had no thought of what he should do; yet he came in the end to do it, and even to justify the doing of it. I waited outside, as I have said, and the sound of voices came to me. I thought to myself once, "Shall I go nearer and listen?" though it was only for my mistress's sake that I considered it, being no eavesdropper.
"For one thing, your own letter to Lopez, the rebel, warning him to beware of the trap prepared for him in Santa Clara, and advising him of the Government force at Sabanilla. Oh, don't try to deny it! I read it with my own eyes, and it means death." In the ensuing silence the fat man's asthmatic breathing sounded loudly; it was like the respirations of an excited eavesdropper.
Meantime, Rodd, without any desire to play the eavesdropper, lay listening to the scraps of conversation which came up through the cabin skylight, growing a little louder than usual, for, as was occasionally the case, an argument was afloat respecting the late war, the doctor according to his wont growing wroth upon an allusion being made by his guest to the ex-Emperor Napoleon; and there were evidently threatenings of a storm, which was, however, suppressed by the grave dignity of the Count and a feeling of annoyance which attacked Uncle Paul upon realising that he had ventured upon dangerous ground.
His arm, raised to fell the eavesdropper, sank impotently to his side: he gasped and stared. "You need have no anxiety," said Lord Justice Pimblekin in a strange, hollow, far-off voice, "your secret is safe with me. I will not blow the gaff."
I happen to know the language, learned it as a boy." Ascher looked at me curiously for a moment. I do not think that he was much surprised at what I said or that my confession made him uneasy. "Ah! You are thinking of what my nephew said to me as we left the supper room. You heard?" "Yes," I said, "I felt like an eavesdropper, but I couldn't help myself. He spoke quite loudly."
"Indeed, I found out afterwards that she had been very anxious. She had seen you go out, and watched Voltaire and me, who went in search of you, and would not retire until she knew your whereabouts." "Well, what then?" "I went into the room. I could not stand and play the eavesdropper. Miss Forrest seemed very glad to see me, and said eagerly "'I came down to ask whether you had found Mr. Blake.
'If you are quite sure of that, Mr. Armstrong, said the lady, 'we can pursue our talk in peace; but there is nothing so disconcerting as to dread an eavesdropper when one is exchanging confidences. Paul had not, so far, begun to exchange confidences, and he rather wondered in his own bourgeois mind if this fascinating lady were offering him a challenge to a flirtation.
'Yet you seemed absolutely certain in the restaurant just now. Did you notice that you were sitting near to a sort of jungle of potted palms? I was lunching immediately on the other side of the forest. Mary drew herself up and fixed him with an eye that shone with rage and scorn. 'Eavesdropper! she cried. 'Not guilty, he said, cheerfully.
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