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Every man is at liberty to embrace that side which pleases him best. You may think that the finny tribes are as sensitive to sound as Fine Ear, in the German fairy-tale, who could hear the grass grow. Or you may hold the opposite opinion, that they are "Deafer than the blue-eyed cat."
The council-pensionary was deaf, and the States-General still deafer. For some months there was no resident English ambassador at the Hague. Finally, at the end of the year, Downing arrived, the very man who had done his utmost to bring about the war of 1665.
I am going to see if there is not some way of reviving one of his comedies in prose. After that I shall set to work on Saint-Antoine. And you, dear master, what is happening to you and all your family? My niece is in the Pyrenees, and I am living alone with my mother, who is becoming deafer and deafer, so that my existence lacks diversion absolutely. I should like to go to sleep on a warm beach.
Vigorously he readdressed himself to the currency problems of the Bavarians; the girl's good-night, as applied to him, fell upon ears deafer than any post. Sharlee walked home through the tingling twilight; fourteen blocks, and she did them four times a day.
'You are speaking, I know, returned Martin, 'but I don't catch what you say. Speak up! 'He's getting deafer than a flint, said Pecksniff. 'I was saying, my dear sir, that I am afraid I must make up my mind to part with Cherry. 'What has SHE been doing? asked the old man. 'He puts the most ridiculous questions I ever heard! muttered Mr Pecksniff.
However, she will not find her grandmama at all deafer than she was two years ago; which is saying a great deal at my mother's time of life and it really is full two years, you know, since she was here. We never were so long without seeing her before, and as I was telling Mrs. Cole, we shall hardly know how to make enough of her now." "Are you expecting Miss Fairfax here soon?"
"But now tell me, my dear," said old Mrs Proctor, "who's Mr Wodehouse?" With despairing calmness, the Rector approached his voice to her ear. "He's a churchwarden!" cried the unfortunate man, in a shrill whisper. "He's what? you forget I don't hear very well. I'm a great deal deafer, Morley, my dear, than I was the last time you were in Devonshire. What did you say Mr Wodehouse was?"
'I grow deafer every day, Chuff, said Anthony, with as much softness of manner, or, to describe it more correctly, with as little hardness as he was capable of expressing. 'No, no, cried Chuffey. 'No, you don't. What if you did? I've been deaf this twenty year. 'I grow blinder, too, said the old man, shaking his head. 'That's a good sign! cried Chuffey. 'Ha! ha! The best sign in the world!
The veteran obstinately matched her by becoming deafer than ever. "Yes, my dear," he said, "you're right; it is chilly in these passages; and unless I go back to my fire, my fire'll go out won't it? If you don't feel sure of your Pints of the Compass, come in to me and I'll put you right again." He winked benevolently, whistled to the dogs, and hobbled off.
I thought it would be unkind to remain away any longer. Besides, I was not enjoying myself, not a bit. Mrs. Cameron grows deafer every day, and it was very triste and miserable. 'How did you know I was at home, Etta? asked Gladys, in her clear voice. Miss Darrell hesitated a moment: 'A little bird informed me of the fact. You did not wish me to remain in ignorance of your return, did you?
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