This
startling circumstance, when Bon-Bon replied to his visiter's
remark, imparted to his manner an air of embarrassment which
probably might, not otherwise have been observed.
"Why sir," said the philosopher, "why sir, to speak sincerely- I
I imagine- I have some faint- some very faint idea- of the remarkable
honor-"
"Oh!- ah!- yes!- very well!" interrupted his Majesty; "say no more-
I see how it is." And hereupon, taking off his green spectacles, he
wiped the glasses carefully with the sleeve of his coat, and deposited
them in his pocket.
If Bon-Bon had been astonished at the incident of the book, his
amazement was now much increased by the spectacle which here presented
itself to view. In raising his eyes, with a strong feeling of
curiosity to ascertain the color of his guest's, he found them by no
means black, as he had anticipated- nor gray, as might have been
imagined- nor yet hazel nor blue- nor indeed yellow nor red- nor
purple- nor white- nor green- nor any other color in the heavens
above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth. In
short, Pierre Bon-Bon not only saw plainly that his Majesty had no
eyes whatsoever, but could discover no indications of their having
existed at any previous period- for the space where eyes should
naturally have been was, I am constrained to say, simply a dead level
of flesh.
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