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    "The Eyes Have It" is one of the famous short story written by Ruskin Bond who has written over 500 short stories. Here in this short story narrator is the speaker . The setting of this story is the train compartment where the narrator present a brief encounter with girl who boarded the train from Rohana.  Through the story reader can see the irony which is broken by the man who had entered the train compartment from saharanpur. Though the speaker and the girl both are blind but did not known to each other. 


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"I'm tired of people telling me I have a pretty face" - who said this to whom and when? What did the person spoken to reply?

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    This quoted line is taken from the short story "The Eyes Have It"  Written by Ruskin Bond. 

    Here the quoted line is said by the girl who boarded the train from Rohana and she said this to the narrator.

    In the middle of their journey the narrator turned from the window and faced the girl but for a while they sat in silence and then the narrator become quite daring and said to the girl that "You have an interesting face" , then the girl laughed pleasantly and said that "I 'm tired of people telling me I have a pretty face "


     When the narrator said to her that "you have an interesting face",  then the girl laughed Pleasantly - a clear ringing laugh. 

     The person replied that it is nice to be told that she has an interesting face and she is tired of that people telling her that she has a pretty face. 

 

"....the girl got up and began to collect her things"- who is the girl? When did she get up? Why did she get up to collect her things? What had the speaker thought about the brief encounter he had with the girl? 

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    This above quoted line is taken from one of the famous short story "The Eyes have it" By written by Ruskin Bond. 

    The girl who boarded the train from Rohana , and also the narrator's fellow passenger. 

    The girl got up  when the narrator said that "we' ll be soon at your station and the engine's whistle shrieked, the carriage wheels changed their sound and rhythm . 

    As the narrator said that soon they will be at her station saharanpur so she got up to collect her things. 

    The girl who boarded the train from Rohana, she and the speaker had a brief encounter through the journey  but when the time has come to say goodbye the girl, the narrator thought that as soon as she left the train she would forget their brief encounter, but it would stay the narrator for the rest of the journey and for some time after. 


"She was an interesting girl" - who said this to whom and When ?  What else did the person say? What reply did he get?

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    This above quoted line is taken from one of the famous short story "The eyes have it" by Ruskin Bond. 

    This quoted line is said by the speaker and to the man who had entered the compartment and broke into the speaker's reverie. 

    And the narrator said this when the man who had entered the compartment and said to the narrator that he must be disappointed and he is not nearly as attractive a travelling companion as the one who just left. 

    The person  said that is he can tell him , did the girl keep her hair short or long? 

    He replied sounding puzzled that he did not remember and it was her eyes he noticed not her hair. And she had beautiful eyes but they were of no use to her. She was completely blind and also said that " Didn' t you notice? ".


" Then I made a mistake" - what 'mistake' did the speaker make? Why was it a mistake? What removed the speaker's doubts?  What did the speaker do then?

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    "Then I made a mistake" ,  here in the short story "The eyes have it" By Ruskin Bond the speaker made the mistake by asking the question that "What is it like outside?"

      It was a mistake because the speaker wondered that if he would be able to prevent her from discovering that he was blind but he asked that "What is it like outside ?" , though he acted like that he was not blind. 

      But when the speaker realized that the girl seemed to find nothing strange in the question and she said that " Why don't you look out of the window?" . 

      Then the speaker moved easily along the berth and felt for the window ledge. The window which was open  and he faced that, making a pretend of studying the landscape but he heard the panting of the engine, the rumble of the wheels and in his mind' s eye, he could see telegraph posts flashing by. 

"She would forget our brief encounter " - who said this  about whom?  What is the brief encounter refferred here?  Why did the speaker think so?

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    This above quoted line is taken from one of the famous short story "The Eyes Have It"  by Ruskin Bond. 

    Here the speaker said this about the girl or co- passenger of the speaker who boarded the train from Rohana. 

    In this short story the narrator had the train compartment to himself up to Rohana then a girl boarded the train from Rohana and then  they started to interacted to each other , the narrator liked the sound of her voice and even the sound of her slippers when she entered the compartment.  They started to talking to each other by asking this question 

"Are you going all the way to Dehra? " I asked."

    Then they mutually agreed with each other to visit Mussoorie especially in October. And a beautiful conversation they had.


    And at last the girl said "Goodbye", sometimes after the girl left the train. Then the door banged and the world was shut out again. He returned to his berth. 

    The speaker think so as the narrator said that "We ' ll soon be at your station" , then the girl said that "Thank goodness it's a short journey. I can't bear to sit in a train for more than two - or - three hours".  So the girl wanted to left the train as soon as possible, as she did not liked the long journey. And the speaker thought that the girl not liked him as He liked her. That is why the speaker thought that as soon as the girl left train, she would forget their brief encounter but ist would stayed with him for the rest of the journey, and for some time after. 

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