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Updated: June 13, 2025
Only Miss Baxter refused to find the story amusing. She had called it impertinence, and then and there made up her mind that the same trick should never be played on her. This morning her near-sightedness had confused her, but she was certain that they were trying to trick her and she would have none of it. "But I am Janet, and I am standing up."
We often see this ludicrously exemplified, even in the trivial matter of near-sightedness. We are almost always a little vexed, when we point out a distant object to a friend, and hear him reply, "No, I do not see it at all. I am near-sighted." "What! can't you see that far?" is the frequent retort, and in the pity is a dash of impatience.
Her blonde hair, which was freshly crimped, fell lightly over her smooth, narrow forehead; her nose, mouth and chin had a neat distinctness of outline; her complexion was either naturally or artificially perfect, and her eyes, which were of the purest blue, had, owing to their near-sightedness, a certain pinched and scrutinizing look.
When a lady, in a delicate and costly summer garb, with a floating veil and gracefully swaying gown, and, altogether, an ethereal lightness that made you look at her beautifully slippered feet, to see whether she trod on the dust or floated in the air, when such a vision happened to pass through this retired street, leaving it tenderly and delusively fragrant with her passage, as if a bouquet of tea-roses had been borne along, then again, it is to be feared, old Hepzibah's scowl could no longer vindicate itself entirely on the plea of near-sightedness.
I'll send 'em up." That afternoon they came, pleasant-faced square little trudges with shiny black hair and round myopic eyes. This near-sightedness when they approached the unclassified, resulted in their simultaneously making up the most horrible faces, the mere effort of focusing.
Of course, it was that, and not blindness, like Uncle Joe's at all. Didn't dad know? Of course, he did! Still, if it was near-sightedness he ought to be able to see near to; and yet it was just as blurred But, then, of course it WAS near-sightedness. Dad said it was. They went to the optician's the next morning. It seemed there was an oculist, too, and he had to be seen.
An uncle who had also been a sea-captain, and who, in rescuing a wrecked crew from an Australian reef, was himself capsized, and after a long swim finally eaten by a shark, said shark being captured next day, and found to contain his head entire, two gold rings still in his ears, which he wore for near-sightedness, after the manner of common sailors, and one of which, after its strange vicissitudes, had found a resting-place in the secretaire of his brother, James Mesurier.
Manso's account is still more particular, and yet it does not tell all; for Tasso himself informs us that he stammered, and was near-sighted; and a Neapolitan writer who knew him adds to the near-sightedness some visible defect in the eyes.
Hannah had in her the making of the woman He needed. God honoured her by choosing her. But she must be changed before she could be used. And so there came those years of pruning, and sifting, and discipline. Shall we spell that word discipline with a final g instead of e discipling, so the love of it may be plainer to our near-sightedness?
"Who?" asked Fouquet, whose near-sightedness prevented him from seeing through the darkness. "M. Colbert," returned the chevalier. "Indeed! That person, then, who is speaking yonder to those men with torches in their hands, is M. Colbert?" "M. Colbert himself. He is giving orders personally to the workmen who are arranging the lamps for the illuminations."
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