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When the time comes, the Master of events, adjusting them in prescribed lines, reaches by stern obligation the avoidless conclusion. Consulting no law but his own will, the Marquis de Ligne had lived as though he were the autocrat of fate itself instead of one of its servants, and therefore was surprised when the venerable playwright prepared the unexpected dénouement.
Crossing rough paddy fields, I trudged over sickled stumps of the prickly plant and mounds of dried clay. At midafternoon my world was still an endless paddy field. Heat pouring from the avoidless sky was bringing me to near-collapse. As a man approached at leisurely pace, I hardly dared utter my usual question, lest it summon the monotonous: "Just a KROSHA." The stranger halted beside me.
Let me share, O God! her joys; and if the dark behest Of woe resistless, and avoidless care, Hath, not gone forth, oh! spare this gentle guest. And wreak thy needful wrath on my resigned breast! An hour elapsed, and Venetia did not move. Over and over again she conned the only address from the lips of her father that had ever reached her ear.
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