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He traveled with a Cowhide Bag that must have used up at least one Cow. The Clothes he wore evidently had been cut from a Steamer Rug by his Mother, or some other Aged Relative suffering from Astigmatism. He had been Sleeping in them. As for the Second Traveler, he was an Advance Agent. "Cheer Up," said the Advance Agent to the English Tourist.
"You've lost more with less justification," retorted the Judge, who, in his ninetieth year, was still as alive as his friend at sixty. M. Mornay waved a hand in acknowledgment, and rolled his cigar from corner to corner of his mouth. "Oh, I've lost a lot more in my time, Judge, but with a squint in my eye! But I'm doing this with no astigmatism. I've got the focus."
They rose in a group and went out hastily. Harry was last, and his hand was on the bolt of the door, preparatory to closing it, when the general turned to Bathurst and said: "You've that diagram of ours, haven't you, Bathurst? It's not a thing to be left lying loose." "Why, no, sir, I thought you put it in your pocket." The general laughed. "You're suffering from astigmatism, Bathurst," he said.
It was simply a case of connubial astigmatism. While Wagner was living on terms of strange intimacy with the young king, he was accused of Oriental luxury. The selection of the rainbow furnishings of his house and of his own dressing-gowns, which made Joseph's coat mere negligée, was not altogether his own, but showed the unmistakable guiding hand of a woman.
The shape of the glasses or spectacles prescribed for an eye is just the opposite of that of the eye. Other eyes are irregularly shaped in front and bulge more in one direction than another, like an orange. This defect is called astigmatism and is very troublesome, making it hard to fit the eye with glasses, as the glasses have to be ground irregular in shape.
Although they drove slowly on purpose to be seen, if you tried to focus your glance on each one it seemed as if they drove like lightning, and you got only astigmatism for your pains. I always came home from the Bois with a headache and a stiff neck. I never dreamed of such clothes even in my dreams of heaven. But the French are an extravagant race.
A long-sighted, or hypermetropic, eye is one which can focus light from distant objects, but not from near objects. These defects in focusing are remedied by wearing glasses with lenses so shaped as to counteract them. Short-sightedness is corrected by concave lenses and long-sightedness by convex lenses, as shown in diagrams above. Astigmatism is another defect in the focusing power of the eye.
There is such a thing as myopia; there is such a thing as colour-blindness; there is such a thing as astigmatism; there is such a thing as shifting shapes swimming before the eyes. But what should we think of a whole dinner party that could give nothing except these highly scientific explanations when found in company with a corpse?
"You've lost more with less justification," retorted the Judge, who, in his ninetieth year, was still as alive as his friend at sixty. M. Mornay waved a hand in acknowledgment, and rolled his cigar from corner to corner of his mouth. "Oh, I've lost a lot more in my time, Judge, but with a squint in my eye! But I'm doing this with no astigmatism. I've got the focus."
When you see a man with the lines of his face drooping, a healthy individual with a pensive eye, suspect astigmatism. Besides, this gentleman has a pronounced line across the bridge of his nose and a mark on his ear from the chain."
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