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"Ah," she rejoined, in a tone of reproach and defense that tortured Arthur, "you know I honor the pursuit of the law." Leonard showed a glimmer of drollery. "Pursuit of the law, yes," he said; "but the pursuit of the lawbreaker" "Even that," replied Isabel, "has its frowning honors." "But I'm much afraid it seems to you," he said, "a sort of blindman's buff played with a club.
I had left my snow-shoes behind me in the hut, and at each step my feet broke through the crusted snow, so that I floundered and fell like a drunken man to choruses of taunts and laughter. It was a horrible blindman's bluff, for they had surrounded me, yelling from every quarter. "This way, monsieur! This way!" piped a thin, voice which I knew to be Philippe Lacroix.
Does not your Majesty remember that one day, having the honour to play at blindman's buff with you at my grandmother's, you put your cordon bleu on my back, the better to hide yourself; and that when, after the game, I restored it to you, you promised to give it me when you became master; you have long been so, thoroughly master, and nevertheless that cordon bleu is still to come."
There was a depressed feeling under all the mirth, although Alison wore her very best dress and laughed and sang, and in the evening played blindman's buff with the children. There was a shadow over the home, although Grannie talked quietly in the corner of the Blessed Prince of Peace, and of the true reason for Christmas joy. Jim's place was empty, but no one remarked it.
We were now upon a sort of green cattle-track which crossed the hills towards Torosay, and we kept changing sides upon that like ancers in a reel. I had so plainly the upper-hand that my spirits rose, and indeed I took a pleasure in this game of blindman's buff; but the catechist grew angrier and angrier, and at last began to swear in Gaelic and to strike for my legs with his staff.
"Oh, you can feel, you know. You can put your hand on the top of my head. I mustn't speak, you know; but I'm sure I shall laugh; and then you must guess that it's Marian." That was her idea of playing blindman's buff according to the strict rigour of the game. "And you'll give me a big kiss?" said Felix. "Yes, when we've done playing," she promised with great seriousness.
"No; I deny it; unpremeditated snap-dragon is dear to my soul; and I could expend myself in blindman's buff." "You shall then, after dinner; for of course you know that we all dine early." "But blindman's buff at three, with snap-dragon at a quarter to four charades at five, with wine and sweet cake at half-past six, is ponderous. And that's our mistake.
The South might have seen and known that the one hope of the institution of slavery lay in the Union. However it ended, disunion led to abolition. The world the whole trend of modern thought was set against slavery. But politics, based on party feeling, is a game of blindman's buff. And then here I show myself a son of Scotland there is a destiny.
Another door ... Ross paused, trying to catch some faint sound, the slightest hint that he was not alone in this blindman's maze. But without even air currents to stir it, the blackness itself took on a thick solidity which encased him as a congealing jelly. The wall ended. Ross kept his left hand on it, flailed out with his right, and felt his nails scrape across another surface.
And now, the dinner being cleared away, we youngsters, already excited to a tumult of laughter, tumbled into the best room, under the supervision of Uncle Bill, to relieve ourselves with a game of "blindman's bluff," while the elderly women washed up the dishes and got the house in order, and the men folks went out to the barn to look at the cattle, and walked over the farm and talked of the crops.
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