“‘Everything is for the best,’ is a comforting maxim which I sometimes try to think a true one—it has been so in the accident to the Eyehead,* for I think the new one is an alteration greatly for the better.
“I have seen Braham, who assures me he will do his
* Some improvement in spectacles to repair an accident. The Doctor was very ingenious in the science of the optician. |
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“The Letter B— wrote you was meant as a perfectly good-humoured bit of irony.”