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The arbitress of the passions indeed wrote nothing to compare in popularity with "Robinson Crusoe," but before 1740 her "Love in Excess" ran through as many editions as "Moll Flanders" and its abridgments, while "Idalia: or, the Unfortunate Mistress" had been reprinted three times separately and twice with her collected novels before a reissue of Defoe's "Fortunate Mistress" was undertaken.
"If you are so minded," said Aymer De Valence, "I have only one word more forgive me if I speak it peremptorily the lady, as you say, and say truly, must be the final arbitress in this question.
And Justine is delighted: she sees her mistress compromising herself with her, and she espouses her passion, her dread, her fears and her suspicions, with terrible friendship. Justine and Caroline hold councils and have secret interviews. All espionage involves such relationships. In this pass, a maid becomes the arbitress of the fate of the married couple. Example: Lord Byron.
And Justine is delighted: she sees her mistress compromising herself with her, and she espouses her passion, her dread, her fears and her suspicions, with terrible friendship. Justine and Caroline hold councils and have secret interviews. All espionage involves such relationships. In this pass, a maid becomes the arbitress of the fate of the married couple. Example: Lord Byron.
"Indeed it is possible I might,-since so many others do." "Cruel, cruel girl! you know that I adore you! you know you are the mistress of my soul, and arbitress of my fate!" Mrs. Selwyn then advancing to us, he assumed a more disengaged air, and asked, if he should not have the pleasure of seeing her in the evening at the assembly?
Suffer me then, lovely arbitress of my fate, to approach you in person, to breathe in soft murmurs my passion to your ear, to offer the sacrifice of a heart overflowing with the most genuine and disinterested love, to gaze with ecstacy on the divine object of my wishes, to hear the music of her enchanting tongue, and to rejoice in her smiles of approbation, which will banish the most intolerable suspense from the bosom of
Should you reject this bill, no exertions of yours to rescue from oppression the suffering inhabitants of your Eastern empire; no records of the prosperous state to which, after along and unsuccessful war, you have restored your native land; no proofs, however splendid, that, under your guidance, Great Britain has recovered her rank, and is again the arbitress of nations, will save your names from the stigma of everlasting dishonour.
In some conflict for liberty, where the desperate poniard is uplifted there 'Oh! don't talk so dreadful. Pray 'Do you bid me pause? At a word from you. You are the arbitress of my destiny. 'No; I've nothing to do do go! Only promise you'll not do nothing dangerous 'Reject me, and life is intolerable. Where the maddened crowd rise upon their tyrants, there in thickest of the fray
"This government," declared the British Ministry in December, 1792, "will never view with indifference that France shall make herself, directly or indirectly, sovereign of the Low Countries or general arbitress of the rights and liberties of Europe." In prosecuting the war, Great Britain fought chiefly with her main weapon, the navy, leaving the land war to her allies.
I supposed it concerned me, more than any other, to be the arbitress of the quarrels of unruly spirits. And now I find my presumption punished punished, as other sins frequently are, by itself! As to this last rashness; now, that it is too late, I plainly see how I ought to have conducted myself.
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