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Excerpt from The Fawn of Spring-Vale, the Clarionet, and Other Tales, Vol. 2 of 3
The human face only is theirs; but though the light which stamps it with the glory of divine, breaks not from the eye, it shines in the heart, and emanates from the whole countenance. Why otherwise is it that the habitual smile of a blind man is so ineffably radiant and serene and why is it that it is habitual? Because the lustre of a pure mind, and the meekness of an inoffensive heart, communicate at all times to the features an expression of more touching grace than could the beauty of the most lustrous eye without them.
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