To mortify his hearing he exerted no control over his voice which was then breaking, neither sang nor whistled, and made no attempt to flee from noises which caused him painful nervous irritation such as the sharpening of knives on the knife board, the gathering of cinders on the fire-shovel and the twigging of the carpet.
Entzumena mortifikatzeko, bere ahotsa, aldatzen ari zitzaiona, aske uzten zuen;