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As for himself he had returned home with no design of engaging immediately in business, except the business of an Insurance Company of which he had been made the agent. He was to wait for a year or two at least. Frank, whose health and eyesight were quite restored, was offered the place in the new business, which Philip would so gladly have given to David.
The war, so far, has shown that, in action between fleets, the submersible has played a negative part. In the Jutland Bank battle, the submersible, handicapped in speed and eyesight, took as active a part, as a Jack Tar humorously put it, "as a turtle might in a cat fight."
Antoine, at the Picpus barricade, where he was shot in the forehead and, as it at first appeared, blinded for life. According to the faithful Gourville, when La Rochefoucauld thought he would lose his eyesight, he had a picture of Madame de Longueville engraved with two lines under it from a fashionable tragedy, the "Alcyonée" of Duryer
"Surely not every ill, every decay?" "Every one; there are no exceptions; there is no such thing as decay it is an unreality, it has no existence." "But without your glasses your failing eyesight does not permit you to " "My eyesight cannot fail; nothing can fail; the Mind is master, and the Mind permits no retrogression."
And so the old man shuffled away, leaving many compliments behind him, evidently not having the slightest suspicion that he had met anyone but the person he supposed himself addressing, for his eyesight was not of the best, and an Ambassador meets many fair and distinguished women.
Which shows how very careful you have to be, when you are a lady and gentleman. The former, in this case, remained unconscious of her lapsus linguae; saying, in fact: "I think we did that very well! I wonder whether he will go and see Gwen!" "I hope he will. Do you know, I couldn't help suspecting that he had something to say about Torrens's eyesight something good.
And this leads me to my first observation, namely, that a majority of those who pass my mirror have weak eyes, and have already invoked the aid of the optician. Why are these people, physically in all else so much stronger than my countrymen, deficient in eyesight?
The eyes in the Ecitons are very small, in some of the species imperfect, and in others entirely absent; in this they differ greatly from those ants which hunt singly, and which have the eyes greatly developed. The imperfection of eyesight in the Ecitons is an advantage to the community, and to their particular mode of hunting.
If anybody is in fault, it is myself; for I have the honor to hold your very brilliant and excellent eye in my own hand!" "You! you have our eye! And who are you?" screamed the Three Gray Women, all in a breath; for they were terribly frightened, of course, at hearing a strange voice, and discovering that their eyesight had got into the hands of they could not guess whom.
I wouldn't be much surprised if we should see something of the kind. Isn't that the flash of an ivory shoulder through yonder gloom? And didn't you see a queer little elfin face peering at us around that twisted gray trunk? But one can't be sure. Mortal eyesight is too slow and clumsy a thing to match against the flicker of a pixy-litten fire."
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