Now, let me direct attention to the fact that if the girl's eyes were blue they couldn't be black; and if you mean to convey the impression that she had one blue eye and one black eye, and that she only looked softly at Adolph out of the off eye, while the near eye roamed around, not doing anything in particular, why, she is too phenomenal for a novel, and only suitable for a place in the menagerie by the side of the curiosities.

And then you say that although her eye was liquid yet it scorched the villain.

People won't put up with that kind of thing.

It makes them delirious and murderous." "Too bad!" said Stack.

"I forgot what I'd said about her eyes when I wrote that scene with the villain." "And here, in the twentieth chapter, you say that Magruder was stabbed with a bowie-knife in the hands of the Spaniard, and in the next chapter you give an account of the _post-mortem_ examination, and make the doctors hunt for the bullet and find it embedded in his liver.
Even patient readers can't remain calm under such circumstances.