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A PAIR OF BLUE for the brilliant scene,

'

EYES.

you

will find that

our companionless state will give

us, as it

extraordinary power

does everybody, an

in reading the features of our fellow crea-

tures here.

I

places as these

by

my

faces

— not

a listener in such

to the narratives told

neighbours' tongues, but

— the

whether

I

am

may have

by

their

is,

that

advantage of which

or Prado, they I

am

always

in

Row, Boulevard,

all

speak the same language.

acquired some

Rialto,

skill in this prac-

through having been an ugly lonely

tice

woman for so many give me information

years, with

a thing

consider strange

when

borne in mind,

— how

have no clocks will 'Ay, that they corroboratively.

men

at

tell

I

you

to

will not

the parallel case truly people

is

who

the time of day."

will,' said '

nobody

Mr. Swancourt

have known labouring

Endelstow and other farms who had

framed complete systems of observation that purpose. louds, the

By means

for

of shadows, winds,

movements of sheep and oxen,