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His conduct toward him on the occasion of his arrest had also been most brutal and insulting; while, after conviction had been obtained, this wretch's malice, as Mr. Dodge had stated, had known no cessation. In the arms of his young bride he had been deaf to the piteous cry of a mother beseeching for her only son.
"I do not know them," said I. The old lady, who was somewhat deaf, thinking that I said I did not know English, leered at me complacently, and said that in that case, I was like herself, for she did not speak a word of English, adding that a body should not be considered a fool for not speaking English.
He should assist the surveyor by noting the coincidences of objects, the opening out of valleys, the observation of new peaks, &c. That these hints upon Polar surveying did not fall upon deaf ears is proved by a letter Scott wrote home some four months later. In it he says "Cherry" has just come to me with a very anxious face to say that I must not count on his navigating powers.
I was anxious to make a study of her. I had lodged accusations, in my romantic imaginings, against this invisible waiting-woman, a tall, well-made brunette. "'Did madame ring? "'Yes, twice, answered Foedora; 'are you really growing deaf nowadays? "'I was preparing madame's milk of almonds.
"Why not Ethan Hunt? He swears dreadfully." "He lives on nuts and is a hermit, and it's a mile to his camp through the thick woods; my mother'll never let me go there," objected Alice. "There's Uncle Tut Judson." "He's too old; he's most a hundred and deaf as a post," complained Emma Jane. "Besides, his married daughter is a Sabbath-school teacher why doesn't she teach him to behave?
'Yes, yes, cried Dot. 'Yes! Certainly! 'Oh! said the Carrier, surprised by the rapidity of this consent. 'Well! I don't object; but, still I'm not quite sure that 'Hush! she interrupted. 'Dear John! 'Why, he's stone deaf, urged John. 'I know he is, but Yes, sir, certainly. Yes! certainly! I'll make him up a bed, directly, John.
Whenever your heart burns within you with admiration of some noble action, then Christ is speaking to you. Whenever a chance word in sermons or in books touches your conscience, and reproves you, then Christ is speaking to you. Oh turn not a deaf ear to those instincts. They may be the very turning-points of your lives.
His voice was drowned and his information lost in a ceaseless roar of cheers, and demands that the money be received now they swore they would not wait. The chairman pleaded and argued, but, deaf to all entreaty, men plowed their way through the throng and rained checks of gold coin into the cart and skurried away for more.
He could not take his daughter with him, so his minister persuaded him to send her over to an institution where she could be taught to use the sign language of the deaf and dumb. He took her over himself, never for a moment imagining that she would learn to speak with her lips, as she did.
After the conflagration had lasted three days, and consumed a prodigious number of buildings, the principal inhabitants, burghers, and clergy, perceiving their city on the point of being reduced to a heap of rubbish, besought the commander, in a body, to hearken to terms; but he was deaf to the voice of pity, and, instead of being moved with their supplications, drove out twelve thousand persons, the least useful in defending the city.
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