Eyes of that quality are the visible mind, animated both to speak it and to render it what comes within their scope.

They were full, unshaded direct, the man himself, in action.

Patrick's mouth had to be studied for an additional index to the character.

To symbolise them, they were as a sword-blade lying beside book.
Men would have thought Patrick the slippery one of the two: women would have inclined to confide in him the more thoroughly; they bring feeling to the test, and do not so much read a print as read the imprinting on themselves; and the report that a certain one of us is true as steel, must be unanimous at a propitious hour to assure them completely that the steel is not two-edged in the fully formed nature of a man whom they have not tried.

They are more at home with the unformed, which lends itself to feeling and imagination.