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Robson would have so liked to sit in even a threadbare pomp and receive the homage of her visitors, but fate had been scurvy enough to withhold this scant triumph. Nellie Whitehead breezed in on Saturday afternoon just as Mrs. Finnegan's cuckoo clock cooed the stroke of three; immediately the air began to move out of adversity's tragic current.
It was the intention of his mother, so soon as the health of her son was sufficiently restored, to continue their journey and cross over to England. Hortense, in her "Mémoires," speaking of these hours of adversity's deepest gloom, writes: "At length I arrived at the barrier of Paris.
The Count was looking at him keenly. "Then," he said, "you also have noticed a change." Captain Bontnor shuffled in his seat and likewise in his speech. "I suppose," he said, "that she has grown into a woman. Adversity's done it." "Yes," said the Count, "your observations seem to me to be correct. I had the pleasure of seeing her once or twice when she was staying at Mrs.
Her poverty, and her father's helplessness, which had cost her such a struggle, stood her in good stead now. Adversity's iron hand had forced her to battle the lassitude that overpowers the rich of her sex, and to be for ever on her feet, working. She kept this up to the last by Catherine's advice.
And the direct intention and mission of sorrow, like the direct intention and mission of joy, are to further that great purpose, that we 'should be partakers of His holiness. 'Every branch in Me that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. III. Lastly, my text suggests a warning against letting prosperity undo adversity's work. Hezekiah came bravely through his trials.
I've just come from the studio." "You might have seen me in Normandy if you had cared to." "Oh, I saw quite enough of you there," she said dryly. "Besides, I knew what you wanted. I wasn't ready to talk to you. I am now." He laughed uneasily, sparring for wind. "What have you to say to me?" "Much. I've been thinking, John. Curious, isn't it? Wearing, too. Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
She could deal in irony herself and loved to but she detested to have it dealt to her. He bowed again; gained the door, and would have passed out but that she detained him. "'Tis a pity, on some scores, to dispose so utterly of this Caryll," she said. "The pestilent coxcomb has his uses, and his uses, like adversity's, are sweet." He paused to question her with his eyes.
Today prosperity grows like a fruitful tree; to-morrow adversity's hot winds wither every leaf. God plants companion, child, or friend in the life-garden; but death blasts the tree under which the soul finds shelter; then begins the desert pilgrimage. Soon comes loss of health; then the wealth of Croesus availeth not for refreshing sleep, and the wisdom of Solomon is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Later, we took in a third another of Adversity's brood, who, like Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy, had a chronic inability to adjudicate the rival claims of Frost and Famine. Between him and misery there was seldom anything more than a single suspender and the hope of a meal which would at the same time support life and make it insupportable.
I've stayed by 'em when they had plenty, and when adversity's overtaken me I've never forsook 'em. "'But, I goes on, 'this is not exactly the case of a friend. Twelve dollars a month is only bowing-acquaintance money. And I do not consider brown beans and corn-bread the food of friendship. I am a poor man, says I, 'and I have a widowed mother in Texarkana.
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