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Glasses 371w1o

by Henry James 3m4i12

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Glasses is an 1896 short story by Henry James. A young woman whose only asset is a supremely beautiful face is about to make a society marriage until her fiancé discovers that, being virtually blind, she needs thick glasses which ruin her looks.

The anonymous narrator, a bachelor artist, visits Folkestone and sees a young woman with an astonishly beautiful face. From a friend, the widowed Mrs Meldrum who has to wear disfiguring glasses, he learns that she is Flora Saunt, an orphan. She has an irer in Lord Iffield, heir to a country estate but not very bright. Another irer, also well off, is Geoffrey Dawling, who is intelligent and sympathetic but not good looking.

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