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And consequently not one man in ten thousand, living in the midst of reality, has discovered that he is also living in the midst of romance. From the moment when the young surgeon closed the door of his house, he was walking blindfold on his way to a patient in the future who was personally still a stranger to him. He never reached the College of Surgeons. He never embarked on his friend's yacht.
In a room yet retaining the rude splendour with which it had been invested by Canute, a handsome boy, about the age of thirteen or fourteen, but seeming much younger, was engaged in the construction of a stuffed bird, a lure for a young hawk that stood blindfold on its perch.
Tennelly sent 'Whisk' for a whole basket of superannuated cackle-berries" he motioned back to a freshman bearing a basket of ancient eggs "we're going to blindfold Steve and put oysters down his back, and then finish up with the fire-hose.
He needed a man of decision to be flung blindfold into unexpected and unexpecting hell wrath, who would lead, take charge, decide on the instant, and lead the way out again, with men behind him who would recognize decision when they saw it. So he spoke darkly.
"If this poor fellow had not been troubled with a fit of restlessness, but had been content to lie safely hidden among the grass-roots where he was born, he would not have been caught. Yes, conduct is fate for a captive caterpillar as well as for man." "And yet who can foresee?" said Alick. "We all walk in the dark blindfold." "As you say, who can foresee?
I vowed no unconscious thought of mine should influence the blindfold soul, and pinned myself desperately to the other three, repeating and re-repeating: A savage spot as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon lover.
Many tried to climb it, but when they came to the grease they came down 'by the run. One fellow however filled his kummerbund with sand, and after much exertion managed to secure the prize. Wheeling the barrow blindfold also gave much amusement, and we made some boys bend their foreheads down to a stick and run round till they were giddy.
"All right, I'll go fust if you'll blindfold me," he ses. "There ain't no need for that, Bob," ses Mr. Smith. "You can't see in the bag, and even if you could it wouldn't help you." "Never mind; you blindfold me," ses Bob; "it'll set a good example to the others." Smith did it at last, and when Bob Pretty put his 'and in the bag and pulled out a paper you might ha' heard a pin drop.
The situation was one well suited to Frontenac's genius for the dramatic. When a boat under a flag of truce put out from the English ships, Frontenac hurried four canoes to meet it. The English envoy was placed blindfold in one of these canoes and was paddled to the shore. Here two soldiers took him by the arms and led him over many obstacles up the steep ascent to the Chateau St. Louis.
Slowly he descended, his ear bent to the windows, listening slowly, still listening, he moved onwards again; his whole being convulsed in a stronger conflict of passion than he had ever known reason at fault and perception blindfold. A full half hour had elapsed, when Dexter reappeared. He was in a calmer frame of mind. Reason was less at fault, and perception clearer.
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