"I protest, Madam," said my Uncle Toby, "I can see nothing whatever in your eye!"
UNCLE TOBY AND WIDOW WADMAN.
(Modern Ulster Version. After C. R. Leslie, R.A.'s celebrated picture.)
Mrs. Ulster. "NOW, MR. BULL, DO YOU SEE ANY 'GREEN' IN MY EYE?"
But this was not what the Widow wanted.
"It is not in the white, or yellow," said Mrs. Wadman. My Uncle Toby looked with might and main into the pupil.
Now there never, surely, was an eye so fitted to rob my Uncle Toby of his repose as the very eye at which he was looking. It was not, Madam, a rolling eye, a dissatisfied or a revolutionary one—nor was it an eye wicked, wanton, or wandering—but it was an eye sparkling, petulant, and imperious, of high claims, and large exactions—an eye full of brisk challenges and sharp responses, an eye of satisfied strength and confident ascendancy—speaking, not like the dulcet appeal of a mellow flute, but like the trumpet stop of some powerful party organ. The cornea was perhaps a shade sallow or so, even verging on the Widow's favourite Yellow—(for the Widow, like some modern decorative artists, was sweet upon all tawny tints, from the most delicate buff to the most flamboyant Orange)—but as to any touch, tint, or tone of her chromatic antipathy, Green——!!!