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Updated: June 22, 2025
The teachers for this year were almost perfectly calculated to make any lad of the slightest independence hate culture for the rest of his life. Miss Muzzy was sarcastic, and proud of it. She was sarcastic to Carl when he gruffly asked why he couldn't study French instead of "all this Latin stuff." Miss Muzzy wore eye-glasses and had no bosom.
"We have got beyond hearts and darts and lace-paper affairs; but cast your judicial eye over that table at all I have received to-day: books and music and boxes of candy and no end of flowers." "Where is your share, Alida?" asked the judge, kindly, peering over his eye-glasses at his youngest daughter. "What did St. Valentine bring you?"
The reading of the paper occupied at least half an hour, and when it was finished, and Corona had begun to make some remarks on a portion of it which she had not fully elaborated, Mrs. Perkenpine approached, and stood before her. "Well, miss," said she, "I'm off." Miss Raybold fixed her eye-glasses upon her. "What do you mean?" she asked. "I'm goin' back to Sadler's," she replied.
They said as plainly as eye-glasses could: "Well, of course, I made her sick." Then he added abruptly: "We will advance you two dollars this week an' that will be all." "I hoped to get some little thing that she could eat some relish," she began. "Not our business, Miss Smith sorry very sorry but try to be more economical. Economy is the great objective haven of life. Emerson says so.
Mademoiselle de Corandeuil, on her side, carefully replaced her eye-glasses upon her nose, and, solemnly stretching herself upon her chair, she turned over the leaves of the 'Gazette de France, which she had neglected so long. Silence reigned for some moments in the room. The aunt apparently read the paper very attentively.
And in that moment Mrs. Hastings found her voice. She curved the chain of her eye-glasses over her ear, threw back her head until the tortoise-rims included her host, and spoke her mind. "Well, Prince Tabnit," she said sharply quite as if, St. George thought, she had been nursery governess to princes all her life "I must say that I think your regret comes somewhat late in the day.
Being a little near-sighted, she had borrowed her sister's eye-glasses, and thereby lessened her chance of success; for the pinch on her nose distracted her attention, and not one of her arrows went beyond the second ring to her great disappointment. Billy did very well, but got nervous when his last shot came, and just missed the bull's-eye by being in a hurry.
All unprepared for the onslaught, the Dean sat enjoying his after dinner smoke that evening when Kit tapped at the door. "Come in," he called, a little bit testily, looking over his eye-glasses at the intruder. "I don't think I can talk with you just now, my dear," he said. "I am very busy working out a dynasty problem."
But when she seemed to be quite their equal in this school of the timorously clerical, she began to look at them level-eyed.... A busy, commonplace, soft-armed, pleasant, good little thing she was; glancing at them through eye-glasses attached to a gold chain over her ear, not much impressed now, slightly ashamed by the delight she took in winning their attention by brilliant recitations.... She decided that most of them were earnest-minded but intelligent serfs, not much stronger than the girls who were taking stenography for want of anything better to do.
He took off his eye-glasses to wipe them and tied his thin legs in a knot, and all the while said, "Yes, there's certainly a great deal to that." At a quarter to ten Mrs. Golden rose, indulged in a little kitten yawn behind her silvery hand, and said: "Well, I think I must be off to bed.... I find these May days so languid. Don't you, Mr. Babson? Spring fever.
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