sightless

And yet it was possible he might love her—love her truly and deeply: if so, of what avail would it be to lower him in her esteem? It were best for Lucy still to gaze with sightless eyes on her idol.

In his return, arriving at a rising ground, a knoll, he heard a rustling of the leaves in his front: an enemy was suspected ; he gathered his men around him, each taking his tree. The enemy was sightless to Boyd, and his party, yet the approach around him was sensible to every one.