You stop here and keep her quiet till I come back, for I trust the case is not hopeless yet.' 'But whatever has made her deaf, sir ?' says the landlady, opening the door for him.

'The shock of that fall in the circus,' says he, going out in a very great hurry.

I thought I should never have held up my head again, as I heard them words, looking at little Mary, with my arm round her neck all the time.
"Well, sir, the doctor come back; and he syringed her ears first--and that did no good.

Then he tried blistering, and then he put on leeches; and still it was no use.

'I'm afraid it is a hopeless case,' says he; 'but there's a doctor who's had more practice than I've had with deaf people, who comes from where he lives to our Dispensary once a week.
To-morrow's his day, and I'll bring him here with me.' "And he did bring this gentleman, as he promised he would--an old gentleman, with such a pleasant way of speaking that I understood everything he said to me directly.