In a Pair of Eyes 



THERE is one adolescent moment never to 

 be forgotten, the moment when the boy 

 learns that this world contains nothing 

 more wonderful than a certain pair of eyes. At 

 first the surprise of the discovery leaves him 

 breathless : instinctively he turns away his gaze. 

 That vision seemed too delicious to be true. 

 But presently he ventures to look again, fear- 

 ing with a new fear, afraid of the reality, afraid 

 also of being observed ; and lo ! his doubt 

 dissolves in a new shock of ecstasy. Those eyes 

 are even more wonderful than he had imagined 

 nay ! they become more and yet more en- 

 trancing every successive time that he looks at 

 them ! Surely in all the universe there cannot 

 be another such pair of eyes! What can lend 

 them such enchantment ? Why do they appear 

 divine ? . . . He feels that he must ask some- 

 body to explain, must propound to older and 

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