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Glasses (short story)
"Glasses" is an 1896 short story by Henry James.
==Plot summary==
The story centers on the vanity of a young woman, whose love of her own beauty will cost her her eyesight and it's all in pursuit of love and marriage; the narrator is an artist, once again the pretty girl comes to sit for a portrait, a favorite method of James that he used many times to put himself in his stories; this artist meets the girl in Folkestone where he has gone “for a blow” and to visit his mother; he sees the girl and is struck by her beauty; later after dinner, standing with her under the stars he becomes more fascinated, seeing her again while out walking he introduces her to his mother and asked if it is true that she has something wrong with her eyes; it brings her to tears and she claims its all a “horrid lie.”
Eventually she sits for a portrait and the artist is mesmerized by her beauty for a time, then comes to find that she has only her beauty, which he has been told by friend Mrs. Meldrum, who is known by her large unattractive glasses that she must wear as her eyesight is terrible; the young Lady, a Miss Flora Saunt has something strange about her and Meldrum says it has something to do with her eyes, they find that she has been to specialist throughout Europe who have advised she must wear corrective lenses, which in that day, late 19th century, were large and ugly frames with very thick glass; the young Lady does not because she is waiting to get married and her vanity will not allow her, she hides it from all her suitors, namely a young man from France who will become Lord Considine, a man of means, once his father dies.
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