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Updated: May 8, 2025
"Why didn't 'ee fasten up the chain?" he asked; but as he was almost stone-deaf he did not understand either their excuses or professions of gratitude, and simply motioned to them to enter.
Beneath the chevalier's room there lived a paralytic, Madame Lardot's grandfather, an old buccaneer named Grevin, who had served under Admiral Simeuse in India, and was now stone-deaf. As for Madame Lardot, who occupied the other lodging on the first floor, she had so great a weakness for persons of condition that she may well have been thought blind to the ways of the chevalier.
"Th' devil ye did! An' where was ye goin' t' drive th' other carriage at that thunderin' rate? It won't wash. His honor'll be stone-deaf when ye tell him that. You're drunk, or have been." "Not to-night." "Well, I'd give me night off t' know what ye were up to. Don't ye know nothin' about ordinances an' laws?
My poor old friend, the Duchesse de la Valière, past ninety and stone-deaf, has a guard set upon her, but in her own house; her daughter, the Duchesse de Chatillon, mother of the Duchesse de la Tremouille, is arrested; and thus the last, with her attachment to the Queen, must be miserable indeed! but one would think I feel for nothing but Duchesses: the crisis has crowded them together into my letter, and into a prison; and to be a prisoner among cannibals is pitiable indeed!
Peerybingle herself took up the parable, however, that the merriment excited among the audience became fairly irrepressible. Scarcely had the nearly stone-deaf stranger added, in regard to the "Bo-o-oy," "Also very young, eh?" Vaccinated six weeks ago-o! Took very fine-ly! Considered, by the doctor, a remarkably beautiful chi-ild! Equal to the general run of children at five months o-old!
There's nothing like bondage and a stone-deaf taskmaster for taming us women. Besides, you've got the laws on your side. Moses knew. Don't you call to mind what he says?" "Not for the moment, ma'am, I regret to say." "Call yourself a schoolmaster! I used to think o't when they read it in church, and I was carrying on a bit.
He was so tall, that the barber had to stand on the table to shave him, and as he walked along the streets, he could hand sugar-plums to the children in the upper windows; and his voice was so loud, that he once made a stone-deaf woman jump off her chair, right up to the ceiling, with fright, when he raised it above the ordinary pitch to speak to her; and he was so strong, that he made nothing of lifting an ale cask to his lips, and drinking out of the bung-hole.
"He is stone-deaf, and hasn't heard, or he'd have let her in fast enough," said Dicky. "It's a new thing for a woman to be of importance in an Oriental country," said Renshaw. "Ah, that's it! That's where her power was. She, with him, could do anything. He, with her, could have done anything.... Stand back there, where you can't be seen quick," added Dicky hurriedly. They both drew into a corner.
He was well aware that he could not get a badge, so he must get along as he best could by working and toiling and fighting for an empty stomach, and make his way by threats and with his fists, and when it was a case of being entrusted with a burden, or getting first hold of a trunk by being deaf, stone-deaf, to everything they might think of calling out about him.
On the contrary, she went back to the topic it had hinged on. "Eighty-one come January!" said she, lighting her own candle. "And please God I may see ninety, and only be the worse by the price of a new pair of glasses to read my Testament. Parson Dunage's mother at the Rectory, she's gone stone-deaf, and one may shout oneself hoarse. But everyone else than you, child, I can hear plain enough.
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