I did not turn a deaf ear to these censurers.
Surprise! A break from Jane Austen territory. Some of the expressions you'll find here are from American literature of the same period. This expression, to "turn a deaf ear" to something, is in Chapter I of Arthur Mervyn, or Memoirs of the Year 1793, by Charles Brockden Brown, printed in Philadelphia in 1799.
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