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Updated: May 11, 2025
The ease of their attitudes suggested that they did not know they were being photographed, and their faces were distinct. George looked triumphantly excited and unhesitatingly laid a finger on one face. "This is the man that drove off Mr. Grant's Percheron and stabbed my horse." The trooper produced a thin piece of card and a small reading-glass.
Turner took a reading-glass and examined first one writing and then the other. "These words appear to have been written by the same hand," he said presently. "Lady Cohen's writing was peculiar, and it is difficult to be mistaken on the point, though I am no expert.
There was the small Bible, a handkerchief, a reading-glass, some fragments of orange-peel, which, perhaps, he had unwittingly thrust there, one or two old religious pamphlets, a newspaper and a strip of parchment. The foreign lady shook her head, as Dalton laid each upon the table.
A discreet footman rapped softly, and being told to enter, glided into the room, bearing a card upon a tiny silver tray, which he brought to his master. The duke took it, languidly glanced at it, knit his brows, and took up his reading-glass and examined it closely. No! his eyes had not deceived him. The card bore the name: ARCHBALD A. J. SCOTT. "Who brought this?" inquired the duke.
"It is unnecessary for me to tell you where I got them, you understand. The question at issue is, did one person write both, and if not, is one of them an imitation of the other?" He flourished a powerful reading-glass in the professional manner those fellows use and gave the two specimens a cursory examination. "The problem should not be difficult," he said, "since both were written hastily.
He looked at them critically, first with the naked eye and afterwards by means of a large reading-glass. Then he grunted in dissatisfaction and promised that next day, or the day after, he would tell me the result of his analysis. As we drove back to the hotel the manager remarked: "It is a very curious affair, sir, to say the least.
Then the old eyes shone, indeed, at sight of the wonderful things disclosed; a fine lace tie and a bottle of perfume; a reading-glass and a basket of figs; some dates, raisins, nuts, and candies, and a little electric pocket lantern which would, at the pressure of a thumb, bring to light all the secrets of the darkest of rooms.
As it was, he read and wrote with great difficulty: in fact, his writing was little better than that which most people can produce as a trial of skill with their eyes shut. From old habits of solitary study, he had no pleasure in hearing others read to him; and he daily distressed me by the pathetic earnestness of his entreaties that I would have a reading-glass devised for him.
He undid a reading-glass from the gold chain to which it was suspended, and agreed to give the glass to Jane, but would on no account retain the chain. I will go to town on Monday and resume my labours.
He handed the microscope back and said, "Friend, keep your glass the bugs no longer exist." Jean Jacques handed the peasantry of France a reading-glass; Voltaire did as much for the nobility. Jean Jacques Rousseau was born in Switzerland, which land, as all folks know, has produced her full quota and more of reformers.
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