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I thought no benefit could arise from my combating these innocent prejudices, so I let them alone. She had often lamented to me the difference of our eyesight, and the trouble it was to her that * The Innd of flight. LIFE OF PETER WILKINS. 177 she could not at all times go about with me, till it gave me a good deal of uneasiness to see her concern. At last I told her, that though I be- lieved it would be impossible to reduce my sight to the standard of hers, yet I was persuaded I could bring he...rs to bear the strongest light I had ever seen in this country. She was mightily pleased with the thought of that, and said she wished I might, for she was sensible of no grief like being obliged to stay at home when I went abroad on my business, and was resolved to try my experiment if I pleased, and in the meantime should heartily pray for the success. I hit on the following invention. I rummaged over all my old things, and by good luck found an old crape hatband. This I tried myself, single, before my own eyes, in the strongest light we had ; but believing I had not yet obscured it enough, I doubled it, and then thought it might do ; but for fear it should not I trebled it, and then it seemed too dark for eyes like mine to discover objects through it, and so I judged it would suit hers; for I was determined to produce something, if possible, that would do at first, without repetition of trial, which I thought would only deject her more, by making her look on the matter as impracticable.
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