Ivor had taken care to inform me that she was a deaf-mute and such a shy one, too, that even now, at twenty-one, she could not make herself learn to read male lips. That sounded odd. I had always thought that the infirmity in question confined the patient in an absolutely safe shell as limpid and strong as shatterproof glass, within which no shame or sham could exist.
Примеры метафор - на языке оригинала (русском или английском). При нажатии на треугольную кнопку (в левом поле карточек) открывается перевод на второй из этих языков.