Possible Clues:

• Mouse, live, taken outside by servant
• Result of blow to optic
• Happen to collar servant producing evidence of injury
• There might be around the servant a sign that he's been in a fight
• what a blow that it's caused the servant to be inside it!
• Be you about to be without such a shiner?
• Be, in short, without sight, perhaps. What a blow that it's brought this about!
• What a blow to make it so that I sound so African!
• Blow that to bruise the servant inside there
• Colourful optic following blow