touch-tag

Updated: June 22, 2025

Now one rainy day, as they were playing at touch-tag, like two children, innocent from head to foot, Blanche, who was always caught, said to him "Come here, Rene; do you know that while I have only committed venial sins because I was asleep, you have committed mortal ones?" "Ah, Madame!" said he, "where then will God stow away all the damned if that is to sin!"

Honoré de Balzac - Droll Stories — Complete : Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine

Now one rainy day, as they were playing at touch-tag, like two children, innocent from head to foot, Blanche, who was always caught, said to him "Come here, Rene; do you know that while I have only committed venial sins because I was asleep, you have committed mortal ones?" "Ah, Madame!" said he, "where then will God stow away all the damned if that is to sin!"

Honoré de Balzac - Droll Stories — Volume 1