When Love and Beauty meet, it is hard not to play the
eavesdropper, and it was easy to guess that Love and Beauty met upon that page.
Dominic and I had been talking business together aft, and Cesar had sneaked up behind us to listen, for, amongst his other perfections, he was a consummate
eavesdropper and spy.
Thrown out of his honourable employment in England, through too much unsuccessful hard swearing there--not because he was not wanted there; our English reasons for vaunting our superiority to secrecy and spies are of very modern date--he knew that he had crossed the Channel, and accepted service in France: first, as a tempter and an
eavesdropper among his own countrymen there: gradually, as a tempter and an
eavesdropper among the natives.
“Well, well, be attentive,” continued Richard, looking cautiously about him, to make certain that no
eavesdropper was hid in the forest, though they were in constant motion.
A fierce growl repelled the
eavesdropper, and then the scout boldly threw open the covering of bark, and left the place, enacting the character of a bear as he proceeded.
'Silence,
eavesdropper!' cried Catherine; 'none of your insolence before me!
"Whatever you do, you can't help working with a Will," cried Tom, who had been so interested, that he forgot he was playing
eavesdropper.
Franklin were thinking aloud, and putting him into the delicate position of an unwilling
eavesdropper. But there was in the mess-room another listener.
'As to Rokesmith, that young man of mine,' said Mr Boffin, dropping his voice and glancing towards the door with an apprehension of being overheard by some
eavesdropper there, 'it's the same with him as with the footmen.
"And what did you think of this fine story,
eavesdropper?" said Monte Cristo; "did you credit it?"
Let me know that no
eavesdropper has heard my life's secret.
The
eavesdroppers heard certain girls disputing, one of them saying that Aias was by far a better man than Odysseus and continuing as follows: