A light shone faintly between the blinds of his bedroom.
Then she closed the blinds, shutting out the night completely.
Someone had pulled the cord attached to one of the blinds, and it had rolled up with a snap.
To feel if blinds be fast, And closer to the fire Her little rocking-chair to draw, And shiver for the poor,
If light or heat is too intense, it causes pain; the glare of the sun blinds instead of giving keener vision.
"You're a clever fellow, dear friend," he muttered, as he lighted his cigar; "you're a stupendous fellow, dear boy; but your friend can see through less transparent blinds than this diamond business.
In vain reason endeavors to unveil them to us; we can never perceive them until the same self-love that blinds us to them finds them to be opposed to its interests." Desire, whose nose had become an ordinary nose, profited by this lesson.
No one wasted time on a second effort to gossip with their leader; it was known that just so often Mrs. McLane drew down the blinds, informed her household that she was not to be disturbed, disposed herself on the sofa with her back to the room and indulged in the luxury of blues for three days.