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So complimenting my good Viking upon the exceeding delicacy of his auriculars, I bade him trouble himself no more with his piratical ghosts and goblins, which existed nowhere but in his own imagination. Not finding the line-and-sinker, with the spare end of a bowline we rigged a substitute; and sounding the well, found nothing to excite our alarm.
You say so, clerk or bank-teller, when you look up from your books at the new-fallen snow glistening in the morning light, and feel something like the prancing of horses' hoofs in the soles of your boots, and hear the jingling of sleigh bells in your mind's ear, long after the sound of them has passed from your veritable auriculars.
Sutton's auriculars "from what you have admitted, that for twenty years you have lost sight of this gentleman and his relatives, and that you might never have remembered the circumstance of their existence, had he not introduced himself to you at the Springs this summer." "You are mistaken, there!" corrected the widow, eagerly.
"'I suppose, said my Lady Cutshort, 'that it would excite you too much to talk, so I had better read aloud. What book do you prefer? "I named one a novel I had not finished and resigned myself to martyrdom. She reads fluently her father says prettily; but the piping voice rasped my auriculars to the quick, and I soon stopped the exhibition.
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