She found him exulting in a partial improvement in his patient, whose senses had again returned with a brief and deceitful brilliance, and attributing what he called the aged Pince's recovery to the potency of his own spells.

He found the glassesgold pince-nezbut they were broken neatly in the middle, lying on the floor, as if they had dropped from someone's hand.

He was a man of forty, curt of speech and short of temper, with eyes that gleamed shrewdly behind gold pince-nez.

Then, fishing in the soaked pockets of his knickerbockers, he produced a pair of smart pince-nez, which he put on, and then gazed up at her.

Terah may yet be savedthis victim comes at s happy moment, and surely Mahneto demands his life as at offering for that of the venerable Pince.