gazed i felt what stately cities might well have been built upon those shores and have flashed prosperity over the calm like bv s spectacles of pearls i dreamed of gorgeous silken sailed and blown by winds drifting over those waters and through those spacious skies i gazed upon the twilight the inscrutable silence like a god fearing upon a new and vast sea bursting upon him through forest and in the of whose impassioned gaze a and poetic world arises and man need no longer die to be happy my companions naturally deserted me for i had grown wearily grave and abstracted and unable to resist the of my spectacles i was constantly lost in the world of which those companions were part yet of which they knew nothing i grew cold and hard almost j people seemed to me ao blind and unreasonable they did the wrong thing they called green yellow and black white young men said of a girl what a lovely simple creature i looked and there was only a glistening of straw dry and hollow or they said what a cold proud beauty i looked and lo a whose heart held the world or they said what a wild giddy girl and i saw a glancing dancing mountain stream pure as the virgin whence it flowed singing through sun and shade over pearls and gold dust bv and i slipping along by weed or rain or heavy foot of cattle touching the flowers with a kiss � a of grace a happy song a line of light in the dim and troubled landscape my grandmother sent me to school but i looked at the master and saw that he was a smooth round or an improper or a vulgar and refused to obey him or he was a piece of string a rag a willow and i had a contemptuous pity but one was a well of cool deep water and looking suddenly in one day i saw the stars that one gave me all my with him i used to walk by the sea and as we strolled and the waves plunged in long before us i looked at him through the spectacles and as his eyes dilated with the boundless view and his chest heaved with an impossible desire i saw and his army tossed and glittering rank upon rank multitude upon multitude out of sight but ever regularly advancing and with confused roar of c music themselves in abject or aa with arms outstretched and hair streaming on the wind he full lines of the i saw pacing the sands of the greek of forgotten times my grandmother died and i was thrown into bv s spectacles the world without resources and with no capital but my spectacles i tried to find employment but everybody was shy of me there was a vague suspicion that i was either a little or a good deal in league with the prince of darkness my companions who would persist in calling a piece of painted muslin a fair and fragrant flower had no difficulty success waited for them around every corner and arrived in every ship i tried to teach for i loved children but if anything excited a suspicion of my pupils and putting on my spectacles i saw that i was a snake or smelling at a bud with a worm in it i sprang up in horror and ran away or if it seemed to me through the glasses that a smiled upon me or a rose was blooming in my then i felt myself imperfect and not fit to be leading and training what was so essentially superior to myself and i kissed the children and left them wondering in despair i went to a great merchant on the island and asked him to employ me my dear young friend said he i understand that you have some singular secret some charm oi spell or or something i don t know what of which people are afraid now you know my dear said the merchant swelling up and apparent bv i ly of his great than of his large fortune i am not of that kind i am not easily frightened you may spare yourself the pain of trying to impose upon me people who propose to come to time before i arrive are accustomed to arise very early in the morning said he thrusting his in the of his waistcoat and spreading the fingers like two upon his bosom i think i have heard something of your secret you have a pair of spectacles i believe that you value very much because your grandmother brought them as a marriage portion to your grandfather now if you think fit to sell me those spectacles i will pay you the largest market price for them what do you say i told him i had not the slightest idea of selling my spectacles my young friend means to eat them i suppose said he with a contemptuous smile i made no reply but was turning to leave the office when the merchant called after me � my young friend poor people should never themselves to get into anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge a pair of spectacles and a hot temper are not the most promising capital for success in life master bv s spectacles i said nothing but put my hand upon the door go out when the merchant said more respect well you foolish boy if you will not sell your spectacles perhaps you will agree to sell the use of them to me that is you shall only put them on when i direct you and for my purposes you little fool cried he impatiently as he saw that i intended to make no reply but i had pulled out my spectacles and put them on for my own purposes 