In my house we were so near that we could not begin to hear -- we could not speak low enough to be heard; as when you throw two stones into calm water so near that they break each other's undulations. - Henry David Thoreau

In my house we were so near that we could not begin to hear – we could not speak low enough to be heard; as when you throw two stones into calm water so near that they break each other’s undulations. - Henry David Thoreau