ejaculated Perseus ; `` I shall be afraid to say a syllable . '' `` She is a very accomplished person , I assure you , '' continued Quicksilver , `` and has all the arts and sciences at her fingers ' ends . In short , she is so immoderately wise , that many people call her wisdom personified . But , to tell you the truth , she has hardly vivacity enough for my taste ; and I think you would scarcely find her so pleasant a travelling companion as myself . She has her good points , nevertheless ; and you will find the benefit of them , in your encounter with the Gorgons . '' By this time it had grown quite dusk . They were now come to a very wild and desert place , overgrown with shaggy bushes , and so silent and solitary that nobody seemed ever to have dwelt or journeyed there . All was waste and desolate , in the gray twilight , which grew every moment more obscure . Perseus looked about him , rather disconsolately , and asked Quicksilver whether they had a great deal farther to go . `` Hist ! Hist ! '' whispered his companion . `` Make no noise ! This is just the time and place to meet the Three Gray Women . Be careful that they do not see you before you see them ; for , though they have but a single eye among the three , it is as sharp-sighted as half a dozen common eyes . '' `` But what must I do , '' asked Perseus , `` when we meet them ? '' Quicksilver explained to Perseus how the Three Gray Women managed with their one eye . They were in the habit , it seems , of changing it from one to another , as if it had been a pair of spectacles , or -- which would have suited them better -- quizzing-glass . When one of the three had kept the eye a certain time , she took it out of the socket and passed it to one of her sisters , whose turn it might happen to be , and who immediately clapped it into her own head , and enjoyed a peep at the visible world . Thus it will easily be understood that only one of the Three Gray Women could see , while the other two were in utter darkness ; and , moreover , at the instant when the eye was passing from hand to hand , neither of the poor old ladies was able to see a wink .
I have heard of a great many strange things , XXXXX my day , and have witnessed not a few ; but none , it seems to me , that can compare with the oddity of these Three Gray Women , all peeping through a single eye .
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