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Updated: June 16, 2025
Following the windings of the path he presently came out in the rear of the weather-beaten, wooden-shuttered church standing, blind-eyed and silent, in week-day desertion in the midst of its groving of pines. The spot was rife with memories, and Tom passed around the building to the front, treading softly as on hallowed ground.
She could only sit there face to face with despair, staring blind-eyed before her, motionless, cold as marble to the very heart of her. She fancied she even numbly hoped that she was going to die. She never heard repeated knocking at her door, or remembered that it was locked, till a man's shoulder burst it open. Then, indeed, she turned stiffly and looked at the intruder. "You!" she said.
Madison gave a short laugh that was like a curse. His hands at his sides knotted into lumps. Then Madison spoke. "Why don't you say, 'you! you! and scream it out and clutch at your bosom the way they do in story books!" he flung out raucously. "Why don't you do your little stunt go on, you're on for the turn you can put anything over me, I'm only a complacent, blind-eyed fool! Anything goes!
Wondering what was up now, I went aft, and the skipper and two mates met me at the break of the poop. "'You get up there to the weather maintopsail yard arm, you blind-eyed farmer, snarled the skipper, 'and keep your lookout there! D'ye hear? I saw that light ten minutes before you sang out. "'I reported it as soon as I saw it, sir, I answered civilly. "'None o' your lip! Get up there!
"You can't see my bonnet; you can't see anything, you're blind-eyed; but," said Fly, glancing sharply around, "it isn't pretty here, at all; and there's a dead cat right in the street." "Yes, I think likely." "And there's a boy. I spect he frowed the cat out the window; he hasn't nuffin on but dirty cloe's." "Do you see some steps?" said the blind girl, putting her hand out cautiously.
Have your eyes put out, and lots of candy to eat, or, your eyes all good, and not a speck of candy as long as you live?" "I'd ravver have the candy 'thout blind-eyed?" "But supposing you couldn't have but one?" Fly reflected seriously for half a minute, and then answered, "I'd ravver have the candy with blind-eyed!" "There, girls, what did I tell you?"
But then the agitators would lose their means of subsistence, their social status, and their political importance. As things are these men are ruining the country they affect to defend; while the worst enemies of the peasant are those who call themselves his friends, and the blind-eyed sympathisers who bewail the wrongs he does not suffer and the misery he himself might prevent.
"Sounds like big sea battle," he said, after listening carefully. "Six German warships sunk, five British. Horrible loss of life. But I may be wrong. These men do their best not to be quite understood. Only six German ships! I wish the whole fleet of those dirty dogs could be sunk to the bottom." There was nothing neutral or blind-eyed about George Harley.
"'Burning effort," George said. "That's fine!" "I'm glad you like that. And 'quick belief' you know what I mean?" "Oh, rather." The poet warmed again over her words. "So you have tried So you have known The blind-eyed groping towards the goal That flickers on the far horizon of Attempt, Gleaming to sudden vividness, anon Fading from sight." "Sort of blank verse, isn't it?" George asked.
"Kurn kertta tayvun." The translation of this is, "The blind-eyed god." By this expression, she meant to say, "What kind of a god are you, not to look upon me, and help me in my distress?" If this little girl had had a Christian father to teach her to love the Saviour, she would not have used such bad language.
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