Will you be so kind as to give it to him ?" "Yes, Miss Killigrew." Absently he raised the monocle and squinted through it.

"Why, it's plain glass!" he exclaimed.
"So it is," replied Kitty, with a crooked smile.

"And I dare say so are most of the monocles we see.

A silly affectation, don't you think so ?" He was instantly up in arms.

The monocle was a British institution, and he would as soon have denied the divine right of kings as question an Englishman's right to wear what he pleased in his eye.
"It was originally designed for a man whose left eye was weaker than the right.