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The ladies dropped their lorgnettes, the men's glasses fell from their eyes and their faces straightened, the noisy old soul with the ear-trumpet sitting under Glory's arm was snuffling audibly, and at the next moment there was a chorus of admiring remarks. "'Pon my word, this is something new, don't you know!" "Fine girl too!" "Fine! Irish girls often run to it."
It thus increases many fold the intensity of a sound which reaches the ear through it, and enables a person who has become deaf to common conversation to mix again with pleasure in society. The concave hand held behind the ear answers in some degree the purpose of an ear-trumpet. The Ear of Dionysius, in the dungeons of Syracuse, was a notorious instance of a sound-collecting surface.
Aunt Mary was so overcome that she traversed half the room before she became aware of the mighty attention which she and her three escorts were attracting. In truth, it is not every day that three good-looking young men take a tiny old lady, a bunch of violets and an ear-trumpet out to dine at ten o’clock. "Everyone’s lookin’," she said to Jack.
Suddenly, Geordie seemed to remember something, and, smiling brightly, he feebly raised his hand to his jacket-pocket, and drew out the little chamois bag, containing the slowly-gathered store of money with which he intended to buy the ear-trumpet for his poor deaf granny.
But you stay here in to-day with me. We won't be fit companions for her, but she shall not lack for company. Uncle Jerry Honeycutt is now ninety-four, and he has a splendid new ear-trumpet he will be rarely diverting for Miss Lansdale." But the daughter remained as indifferent to taunts as she had been to my friendly advances. It occurred to me now that her self-possession was remarkable.
Jack produced a roll of bills and settled for the refreshments. Then they all started down stairs as Aunt Mary wouldn’t risk an elevator going down. "It’s all right comin’ up," she said, "but if it broke when you were going down where’d you be?" "In the elevator," said Clover. "I’d never jump, I know that." "Oh, I’ve left my ear-trumpet," said Aunt Mary. "Let’s draw lots to see who goes back?"
Arethusa laid down her work, drew a mighty breath, very nearly got into the ear-trumpet, and explained that being suspended was infinitely less heinous than being expelled, and decidedly less final. Aunt Mary looked relieved. "Oh, then he’s gettin’ better, is he?" she said. "Well, I’m sure that’s some comfort."
"Go where in a box?" said Aunt Mary, starting a little. "I didn’t quite catch that." "To the theater," Jack yelled. "To the theater," repeated his aunt a trifle blankly, "I—" "Oh, hurrah," cried Burnett, "that’ll be bully! And the day after I’ll give her a picnic." "Time of your life, Aunt Mary," Jack shrieked in her ear-trumpet; "time of your life!" "Dear me!" said Aunt Mary, "I don’t just—"
It happened that his aunt from Penn's Grove had been there that day and had left her brass ear-trumpet lying on the piano, and Peter got hold of this without perceiving the mistake, as the two were of similar shape. He took it in his hand and went out on the porch where Miss Brown was sitting.
Dimly in my memory is a suggestion that when we passed Uncle Jerry Honeycutt, I confided to her that he sent to Chicago for his ear-trumpet and that it cost twelve dollars. If I did this, she must have made a suitable response, though I retain nothing of it.
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