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He dwelt upon the matter of her "looks," and the way she lighted up the dingy dining-room, and so conversed that a man found himself listening and glancing when it was his business to be an unhearing, unseeing piece of mechanism.
When they hear the Word of God preached on matters predetermined by them, it falls on unhearing ears. There is no response of the heart. Another reason is love of ease—indolence. People hear the voice of duty, but they do not respond to it because they do not wish to make the necessary effort.
Many of the wall-flowers and elderly guests poured their chatter into his unhearing ear, and thought him a most sympathetic listener. Genevieve, however, with each glimpse that she caught of him, perceived how his fatigue was constantly verging toward exhaustion.
Augustine could hear all he said and gauge how deep was an intimacy that could wear such lightness, such slightness, as its mask. Augustine, meanwhile, looked at neither his mother nor Sir Hugh. Turned from them in his chair he put out his hand for his tea and stared before him, as if unseeing and unhearing, while he drank it.
"Break for it, before anybody else gets there and muddies the water." But Pete still stood rigid and unhearing, clutching his gun with a desperate grip, and glaring with bulging, unmoving eyes across the plain. "Come, wake up, Pete," said Shorty, giving him a sharp shake. "Do as I tell you, and on the jump. The fight's over." "The fight's over?" stammered the boy. "Ain't they coming back again?"
Drawing, a paper from his overcoat, the adjutant began to read. It was a "special order." Even to this Prescott listened only with unhearing ears -at first. Then, though he betrayed no more audible interest than did any of the other men in gray, Dick Prescott found his head swimming. This special order referred to his own case.
She marvelled whither he had fled, and thought herself fortunate in having only two fruitless discussions in his absence. Not till eight o'clock did he make his appearance, and then it was in an unhearing, unseeing mood, so that nothing could be extracted, except that he did not want any dinner; and it was not till late in the evening that he abruptly announced, 'Lucy is coming home on Wednesday.
"I I stay with the leetle white angel for ever and ever!" he whispered, his words meant only for the unhearing ears of the child. "Jan Thoreau will stay, yes and hees violon! I give it to you and ze museek!" He laid his precious violin across the foot of the cot. In the days that followed, there came other things which Jan could not understand, and which he made no great effort to understand.
Why, Sophie, think how absurd! Here's the key, a great, strong, honest key; where could another be found to open the heavy door? Such broad, true wards it has, look, and believe!" As if unhearing, Sophie went on, "I certainly heard a voice in there one day. Old Mother Hudson died, and was buried in the corner, close beside the church.
Relief came first to Wallace; for as they laid the tiny form on the bed, and arranged the shabby little gown about it, he suddenly fell upon his knees, and flung one arm about his child and burst into bitter crying. But Martie moved about, mute, unhearing, her mouth fallen a little open, her breath still coming hard.
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