I'm sure you bear it splendidly, and you know it isn't half so bad when you get used to it.

Besides, it is only for a time, and you can do lots of pleasant things if you can't study.

You'll have to wear blue goggles, perhaps; won't that be funny ?" And while she was pouring out all the comfortable words she could think of, Rose was softly bathing the eyes and dabbing the hot forehead with lavender-water, as her patient lay quiet with a look on his face that grieved her sadly.
"Homer was blind, and so was Milton, and they did something to be remembered by, in spite of it," he said, as if to himself, in a solemn tone, for even the blue goggles did not bring a smile.
"Papa had a picture of Milton and his daughters writing for him.

It was a very sweet picture, I thought," observed Rose in a serious voice, trying to meet the sufferer on his own ground.
"Perhaps I could study if someone read and did the eye part.

Do you suppose I could, by and by ?" he asked, with a sudden ray of hope.
"I dare say, if your head is strong enough.