The result is a move across the carpeted floor in soft, stealthy step, and an ear laid close to the keyhole of the bed-chamber door.
That she has had her ear to the keyhole before presenting herself is told by the rebuke having reference to the last words of the girl's soliloquy, in her excitement uttered aloud.
When this is locked from the outside a small flat bar, that is secured at one end to the door, is put across the keyhole to a staple thereon, fastened by a padlock.
Asher stared about him, and then saw that the tiny figure which first gazed at him from the keyhole was now squatted, nursing its knees, upon his lanthorn, and gazing fixedly at him.
Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost.
By putting her ears to a keyhole and hiding behind a curtain, she expressed the possibility of there being a spy in the very household, who would listen to the unguarded talk of her father and report it to the governor.
If her little mother had ever gone so far as to put her ear to the keyhole of that bedroom, she would have listened to something which would probably have sent her to a doctor to consult him as to her daughter's mental condition.
She stooped to the keyhole but it was dark, a key evidently being in the lock.
Quiet," urged Bob, who was listening at the keyhole of the strong room, the door of which was closed, but not locked.
The keyholetheory was, obviously, not to be mentioned again.
The keyhole is the only opening, and it Is impossible to push a big key, like this, in through the keyhole.
Watching through the keyhole of the door, she saw them troop off to the huts, shouting and capering and waving the bottles in the air.
All the time the Kafirs made no sign, and from the keyhole she saw them still sitting in silence, watching the house.
The other cupboard was locked, and Willis's quick eyes saw that the woodwork round the keyhole was much scratched, showing that the lock was frequently used.
The cobwebs round about the bolts were torn and broken; the rust which had filled the keyhole had been removed, and on the dust covering the lock the impress of a hand could be detected.
So once more his gaze pierced the keyhole right through, Where he had of the table an excellent view.
Some one had to do this kind of thing, so long as the public snooped and peeped and eavesdropped through the keyhole of print at the pageant of the socially great: this he appreciated and accepted.
The laugh through the keyhole was changed to a hiss, which Mrs. Carter said must be the wind, although there was not enough stirring to move the rose bushes which grew by the doorstep!
I know it is," sighed he, while through the keyhole of the opposite door came something which sounded very much like a stifled laugh!
The true estimate of your character (and mine) depends on what we should do if we knew there was no keyhole behind us.
No one would put his ear to a keyhole if he thought an eye might be at the keyhole behind him watching him in the act.
He knelt, pressed his ear close to the keyhole and heard a long, low, pitiful sob from her bed.
Two hours later when Andy cautiously approached his door and listened at the keyhole he was still pacing the floor with the nervous tread of a wounded lion suddenly torn from the forest and thrust behind the bars of an iron cage.
But from the keyhole of the drawing-room came a little pencil of light.
But there was a great keyhole in the door, and James Whittaker, a boy of nineteen, who loved Mother Ann and believed in her, put the stem of a clay pipe in the hole and poured a mixture of wine and milk through it.
Lots nicer than Mother Ann in prison; for Jane said her mother and father was both Believers, and nobody was good enough to pour milk through thekeyhole but her.
At length the sound of feet was audible upon the stairs, and then the light of a candle shone through the keyhole of the door.
Then he poked lightly at the key through the keyhole and heard it thud to the ground outside.
The door would not budge when they pushed against it, and there was just light enough to make out the large keyhole of a massive inset lock.
The quick ear of Malcolm had caught a slight sound of the handle, whose proximity to the keyhole was no doubt often troublesome to Jean.
He kens nae mair aboot whaur I come frae, mem, nor your Jean, wha 's hearkenin' at the keyhole this verra meenute.
But Mr. Watson reflects upon people who have been human enough to read them when he compares such a proceeding on his own part (were he able to be guilty of it) to the indelicacy of 'listening at a keyhole or spying over a wall.
For the general public, the wall is down, and the door containing the keyhole thrown open.
