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The diminutive meanness of American church-towers, has been an eye-sore to every intelligent, travelled American, since the country was settled.
"We've been cursing you," said Ridley in answer to Mrs. Elliot's kind enquiries about his wife. "You tourists eat up all the eggs, Helen tells me. That's an eye-sore too" he nodded his head at the hotel. "Disgusting luxury, I call it. We live with pigs in the drawing-room." "The food is not at all what it ought to be, considering the price," said Mrs. Paley seriously.
But was it not very hard on them that their niece should turn out a little wild harum-scarum creature, such as they had never dreamt of really unable to move without noises that startled Lady Jane's nerves, and threw Lady Barbara into despair at the harm they would do a child whose untutored movements were a constant eye-sore and distress to them; and though she could sometimes be bright and fairy- like if unconstrained, always grew abrupt and uncouth when under restraint a child very far from silly, but apt to say the silliest things learning quickly all that was mere head-work, but hopelessly or obstinately dull at what was to be done by the fingers a child whose ways could not be called vulgar, but would have been completely tom-boyish, except for a certain timidity that deprived them of the one merit of courage, and a certain frightened consciousness that was in truth modesty, though it did not look like it?
But perhaps as many of those things were injuriously laid to his charge, so he kept the Government far steadier than it has since proved. I could name some who, I think, contributed greatly to his ruin, the buffoons and the misses, to whom he was an eye-sore. 'Tis true he was of a jolly temper after the old English fashion; but France had now the ascendant, and we were become quite another nation.
Generally speaking, I do not admire saints. They are too pure to mix with this sinful world, and are not fond of sailors. A fortnight passed away when we once more sighted our anchors, and the day after that eye-sore Boulogne.
She took the flowers up stairs after breakfast, resolving that they should not be an eye-sore to her friends; placed them in water and sat down to enjoy and muse over them in a very sorrowful mood. She again thought she would take the first opportunity of going home. How strange out of their abundance of tributary flowers to grudge her this one bunch! To be sure it was a magnificent one.
The dimensions of Castle Street were not unworthy of the metropolis: it traversed a great portion of the town, and was proportionately wide; its broad pavements and its blazing gas-lights indicated its modern order and prosperity; while on each side of the street rose huge warehouses, not as beautiful as the palaces of Venice, but in their way not less remarkable; magnificent shops; and here and there, though rarely, some ancient factory built among the fields in the infancy of Mowbray by some mill-owner not sufficiently prophetic of the future, or sufficiently confident in the energy and enterprise of his fellow-citizens, to foresee that the scene of his labours would be the future eye-sore of a flourishing posterity.
"Vell I dought I dit see an olt Injin in a hut up yonder ast by der woots!" put in my uncle, innocently. "Oh! that is Susquesus, an Onondago; he is a true Injin, and a gentleman; but we have a parcel of the mock gentry about, who are a pest and an eye-sore to every honest man in the country. Half on 'em are nothing but thieves in mock Injin dresses.
Other careless folk were maimed by the furious driving of the Nepentheans; it was a common form of accident. Miss Wilberforce the eye-sore, the scandal of her sex remained intact. Some impish deity seemed to guide her wayward footsteps. Had she been a person of low extraction there would have been no difficulty in dealing with her.
The only eye-sore in the whole place was another cousin of Maria Lobbs's, and a brother of Kate, whom Maria Lobbs called "Henry," and who seemed to keep Maria Lobbs all to himself, up in one corner of the table.
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