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Bethune, who had been standing just behind him, had heard that whispered first word. "Oh, you rare right," says Tita petulantly. "But you would never have known me but for my hair. And I hate being blindfolded, too. Maurice, will you take it for me?" holding out to him the handkerchief. "No!" says Rylton quietly, but decisively so decisively that Mrs.
They had not minded her being so slow, but had brought her all the way; and when she wanted to follow them along the ledge to get a better view of the nest, they had blindfolded her that she might not get giddy, and had put a rope round her and brought her safely along the narrow ledge till she had got to this place.
If he is an impostor, I shall know it. In one moment I shall know it. I I just want to see him alone. It is because he has suffered so long that is why he has come like this if they aren't accusing him wrongfully, and I he will tell me the truth. If he is Richard, I would know it if I came in and stood beside him blindfolded. I will call you in a moment.
In his detention he had necessarily learned nothing fresh, for the only names he could have overheard had long been obnoxious to suspicion of moonshining, and afforded no proof. Thus humanity, masquerading as caution, finally triumphed, and the officer, blindfolded, was conducted through devious and winding ways many miles distant, and released within a day's travel of the county town.
In little over an hour there was a shout from the walls, and on approaching the gate again, they were told that the governor had given permission for them to enter. "You are to be blindfolded," the officer said, as the gate closed behind them. "No one may ascend the rock, unless he consents to this.
"Lady, it is quite useless for you to struggle, as you are irrevocably in my power, but if you will promise faithfully not to make any outcry, and will submit to be blindfolded, I shall remove this oppressive muffling from your head. Tell me if you will promise." He had partly raised the shawl, and a gush of free air came revivingly in, and enabled Leoline to gasp out a faint "I promise!"
He was awakened by the opening of the door of his dungeon, and the entry of priests grim, silent men who seized and blindfolded him. Then they led him away up many stairs, and along paths so steep that from time to time they paused to rest, till at length he knew, by the sound of voices, that he had reached some place where people were assembled. Here the bandage was removed from his eyes.
It was true she had blindfolded herself! With her eyes closed, she could measure to a hair's breadth the distance which, with her eyes opened, she was perfectly incompetent to calculate! Detected by both of us, she sat down, poor dear, with a sigh of despair. "Was it worth while," she said to me sadly, "to go through the operation for this?" Grosse joined us at our end of the room.
'And blindfolded and ignorant as they are, said Lancelot, 'they will be certain to cut their way out just in the wrong direction. 'I'm not so sure of that, sir, said Tregarva, lowering his voice. 'What is written'? That there is One who hears the desire of the poor.
There was never a side-show on the Riva that we did not interrupt our work to go and see it; whether it was the circus in the little tent, with the live pony, the most marvellous of all sights in Venice; or the acrobats tumbling on their square of carpet; or the blindfolded, toothless old fortune-teller, whose shrill voice I can still hear mumbling "Una volta soltanta per Napoli!" when she was asked if Naples, this coming summer, as the last, would be ravaged by cholera.
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