"That is his sole occupation.

He likes it because it is the only part of the garden in which he can move about without a guide.

How empty and hard his life must seem to him, now, Mr.Fairfax ?" "It must indeed," I replied.

"To my thinking blindness is one of the worst ills that can happen to a man.

It must be particularly hard to one who has led such a vigorous life as your uncle has done." I could almost have declared that she shuddered at my words.