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When he finished there was a pause, and everybody said: "Oh, thank you; we're all er " and then the talk began again. The vocal soloist sang some ballad of Schumann, and as long as it lasted an old lady with an ear-trumpet sat at the foot of the piano, and a young girl spoke into it. When it was over, everybody said, "Ah, that dear old thing!"
He declared Ponto, White-feather, Red Jacket and Thomas Paine to be present. The light was then turned out, and all hands laid upon the table. Mr. Furness laid one of his hands upon one of the Medium's and upon one of Mr. Hazard's. Furness had held both his hands. But Mr. Hazard was touched several times about the face. Mr. Furness was touched on the cheek and on his ear-trumpet and Mr.
What peace, could he have heard his Ninth Symphony, would have slid into his soul. Blind Milton, sitting at his organ, was a less tragic figure and probably a happier man than Milton with a useless ear-trumpet would have been.
If she had not been laughing, she could scarcely have helped seeing how the ear-trumpet shook as it was presented to her. "Oh, no," said she, "she's not married, Aunt Margaret at least not now, though I believe she's a widow, or something of that kind, you know and she hasn't any children at all! As to her other name, I don't know it, and I believe hardly any one does.
Snawdor, when she reached home and had cut herself a slice of dry bread to eat with the warmed-over coffee. "She never said what the pay was to be, but she said to come back." "What does she look like?" asked Mrs. Snawdor, curiously. "A horse," said Nance. "And she's deaf as anything. If I stay with her, she'll have to get her an ear-trumpet or a new wig before the month's out.
Her nephew bent over her ear-trumpet. "Clover!" he howled, with all the strength he owned. "I heard before," said Aunt Mary, somewhat coldly. "Come on and dine with us, Clover," said Jack; "that’ll make four." "All right, I will," said Clover, in his languid drawl. Aunt Mary saw his lips.
Joshua Reynolds escaped the damp of the Vatican with nothing worse than a deafness that caused him to carry an ear-trumpet for the rest of his life. But now he was back at Plymouth.
Me and Jonadab felt we'd ought to be sociable, and so we set, one on each side of her on the sofy, and bellered: "How d'ye do?" and "Fine day, ain't it?" into that ear-trumpet. She didn't say much, but she'd couple on the trumpet and turn to whichever one of us had hailed, heeling over to that side as if her ballast had shifted.
There was a pause of consternation. No one spoke except the parrot. "We know what she’s done without your telling us," said Clover, addressing the bird. "The question is what to do next?" Jack went back downstairs and found the carriage waiting in hopes of picking up another load. He lost no time in personally picking up the ear-trumpet and returning to his friends.
As time went on he really began to look almost lantern-jawed. He bent forward and tried to catch Mr. Laycock's eye and to telegraph an urgent question, but only succeeded in meeting the surly blue eyes of Leo Ulford, whom he met to-night for the first time. In his despair he turned towards Mrs. Leo, and at once encountered the ear-trumpet.
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