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Updated: June 13, 2025
While Cornelia was delivering this into the black ear-trumpet, she turned her eyes away from Aunt Margaret's face, being in truth somewhat embarrassed at talking so much about the man who had her heart. Consequently she did not observe the expression which crossed her companion's face at her mention of the modest name of the boarding-house keeper.
Fritz and Miss Schley were not going to have things quite all their own way. And then Mrs. Leo! She would put Fritz next the ear-trumpet. She had enough sense of humour to smile to herself at the thought of him there. On the whole, she fancied the neuralgia would not attack her at the critical instant.
Fran could count for her support an old bachelor with a weak heart, and an old lady with an ear-trumpet. The odds were terribly against her. Absolutely neutral stood the one most vitally concerned in the struggle about to take place. Like the king of a chess-board, Mrs. Gregory was resolved, it would appear, to take not even the one step within royal prerogative.
"What do you say?" cried the old gentleman, starting from his nap and putting up his hand to serve the purpose of an ear-trumpet. Monsieur On-Dit bent forward again and repeated his communication. "Never within my memory," exclaimed the Oldest Inhabitant, lifting his hands in astonishment, "has so remarkable an incident been heard of."
Lord Edgcumbe looked over the work he had brought and called into the ear-trumpet that a man who could paint like that was a fool to remain in a country town: he should go to London and vanquish all such alleged artists as Hudson. Keppel had gotten back to England, and he and Edgcumbe had arranged that Reynolds should pitch his tent in the heart of artistic London.
I seem to see him coming down past my door in that wonderful plum-coloured coat. And sitting here at night I think of him the sudden fear, the solitary death, then these stairs thronged with his pensioners, the mighty Burke pushing through, Reynolds with his ear-trumpet, and big 'blinking Sam, and last of all the unknown grave, God knows where, by the chapel wall. Poor little Oliver!
"How many of the brutes did you say you'd killed, young man?" she boomed at him, at the same time putting her ear-trumpet at the "ready." "Two for certain," howled Vane; "perhaps three." She resumed her lunch, and Sir James laughed. "My sister," he remarked, "is full of war. . . . Rather fuller like a good many of those who have stayed behind than you fellows. . . ."
Grace exclaimed, with one of those flashes of inspiration peculiar to her sex, "that Fran is a show-girl!" Abbott started, but said nothing. Mrs. Gregory rose, and spoke through her mother's ear-trumpet, "Shall we go home, now?" "That Fran," repeated Grace, "is a show-girl! She is eighteen or nineteen years old, and she is a show-girl!" "Wouldn't it be best for you to ask her?" "Ask her? Her?
New ideas build their nests in young men's brains. "Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles," as I once heard it remarked, and the first whispers of a new truth are not caught by those who begin to feel the need of an ear-trumpet.
Like this is the peddler's recommendation of his ear-trumpet: I don't pretend with horns of mine, Like some in the advertising line, To magnify sounds on such marvellous scales That the sounds of a cod seem as large as a whale's. There was Mrs. F. so very deaf That she might have worn a percussion cap And been knocked on the head without hearing it snap.
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