VILLAGE BELLES. CHAPTER I. AN INVITATION. "LOSE her sight! how very dreadful!-" exclaimed Rosina, only imperfectly hearing what was passing between her mother and a little knot of village acquaintance. "My dear, you mistake.-Her sight may be saved, Mrs. Good tell us, provided she will submit to the operation of couching." "But still, at her age, with so much timidity and dislike of confinement.-It is very terrible, is it not?" cried Rosina, turning to Anne Greenway. "Poor old Lady Worral! I pity her exceedingly." "Yes, I should dread the couching beyond every thing!-The eye is so susceptible of pain! I had a cousin once- "" "My dear Anne! surely any pain would be preferable to blindness! VOL. III. Even to a cultivated B |