'Oh, yes, sir, says I; 'she can read and write beautiful for a child of her age; my husband taught her.' 'Get me paper and pen and ink directly,' says he to the landlady; who went at once and got him what he wanted.

'We must quiet her at all hazards,' says the doctor, 'or she'll excite herself into another attack of fever.

She feels what's the matter with her, but don't understand it; and I'm going to tell her by means of this paper.
It's a risk,' he says, writing down on the paper in large letters, _You Are Deaf;_ 'but I must try all I can do for her ears immediately; and this will prepare her,' says he, going to the bed, and holding the paper before her eyes.
"She shrank back on the pillow, as still as death, the instant she saw it; but didn't cry, and looked more puzzled and astonished, I should say, than distressed.

But she was breathing dreadful quick--I felt that, as I stooped down and kissed her.

'She's too young,' says the doctor, 'to know what the extent of her calamity really is.