On one side of this table I sat--and on the other side sat the girl, as far away as if an entire room had separated us.
"Before going down to the meal I had laid aside my glasses, for I have observed that spectacles, though often beneficial to the sight, are not always equally commendable in the opinion of women; and it should assuredly be one's endeavour to become agreeable to those about us.
"Be it noted at this point, my dear Loughburne, that I have observed peculiar properties in the eyes of Miss Cumberland.

Those of all other humans and animals that have fallen under my observance were remarkable only for their use in seeing, whereas the eyes of Miss Cumberland seem peculiarly designed to be _seen_.

This quality I attribute to the following properties of the said eyes.

First, they are in size well beyond the ordinary.

Secondly, they are of a colour restful to behold.
It is, indeed, the colour of the deep, blue evening sky into which one may stare for an incalculable distance.
"As I have said, then, I noted a glow in these eyes, though they were so immediately lowered that I could not be sure.