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I am not sure; I want to find out; I will tell you when I know." "Who has put that into your head, Bébée?" "The angels in the cathedral," she told them; and the children were awed and left her, and went away to play blind-man's-buff by themselves, on the grass by the swan's water.
We'll dine about three, so that the servants can have the afternoon." "Of course we'll go," said Lily; "why not? We always do. And we'll have blind-man's-buff with all the Boyces, as we had last year, if uncle will ask them up." But the Boyces were not asked up for that occasion. But Lily, though she put on it all so brave a face, had much to suffer, and did in truth suffer greatly.
The nocturnal revelries of Goldy and his intimates are happily described in Mr. Forster's biography. Supper-parties were frequent, "preceded by blind-man's-buff, forfeits, or games of cards, when Goldsmith, festively entertaining them all, would make frugal supper for himself off boiled milk." Seguin," the wife of an Irish merchant.
But now we are settled in England, I have a wish to study English society. 'Disappointing, I assure you; dinners heavy, dancing boorish, intrigue a blind-man's-buff. We've been over it all before ! 'We have. 'Admired, I dare say. You won't be understood. 'I like my countrymen. 'The women have good looks of the ungarnished kind. The men are louts. 'They are brave.
He was like a man who, long playing at blind-man's-buff, suddenly has the bandage plucked from his eyes and stands dazzled and blinking in the sunlight. After all, he was not the Count of Montcorbier; after all, he was not the Grand Constable of France; after all, he was only a masquerading beggar who had won the heart of a lady under false colours; who had triumphed by flying a false flag.
and, lacking that foreknowledge, it misses the specifically dramatic effect of the scenes. The author invites it to play at blind-man's-buff with the characters, instead of unsealing its eyes and enabling it to watch the game from its Olympian coign of vantage. Let the dramatist, then, never neglect to place the requisite finger-posts on the road he would have us follow.
I'll send one of them down to you: turn yourself to God to your Redeemer, that died on the mount of Jehosha-phat, or somewhere about Jerusalem, for your sins and don't go out of the world from the hand of a rascally priest, with a band about your eyes, as if you were at blind-man's-buff, for, by the light of day, you're as blind as a bat in a religious way.
The boys did not answer. "So that the question is, Did Rollo do wrong? or, Is James out of humor?" "Why, I think deception is always wrong," said James. "Did you ever play blind-man's-buff?" asked Jonas. "Yes," replied James. "And did you ever go and squeak in a corner, and then creep away, to make the blind man think you were there, and so go groping after you?"
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