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With a full perception of the catastrophe in which she had so innocently become involved, the wife hurriedly recounted the facts to her aunt, bewailing the evil destiny that had worked such dire havoc with her schemes for good. "Well, you did what you could," Mrs. Delancy suggested consolingly, when at last the melancholy recital was ended. "And I failed!" came the retort, in a voice of misery.
"What a happiness it is to have a clever mother," exclaimed Egremont, as he pondered over the returns of his election agent. Lady Marney, duly warned of the impending catastrophe, was experiencing all the advantages of prior information.
See also an article on "The Insurgents of 1811," in the American Historical Association "Report" by D. R. Anderson. The Twelfth Congress had met under the shadow of an impending catastrophe in the Northwest. Reports from all sources pointed to an Indian war of considerable magnitude.
"There is a mysterious particle of God in every savage," replied Brother Jacques, mentally comparing Anne's eyes with flashing water. "Well, to go on. Hiawatha's daughter modestly acquiesced to her kind parent's advice, and with patient submission awaited the catastrophe.
The above fact has never been recorded in any publication." Forebodings and Dreams. An instance in which a dream was useful in preventing an impending catastrophe is recorded of a daughter of Mrs. Rutherford, the granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott. This lady dreamed more than once that her mother had been murdered by a black servant.
Almond had, in her sister's phrase, "taken up" Catherine violently since the recent catastrophe; but though the girl was very grateful to her for her kindness, she revealed no secrets, and the good lady could give the Doctor no satisfaction.
And now, with what a flow of tenderness will you describe this affecting catastrophe!161 and how will your genius adorn and heighten this moving story! Though, indeed, the subject does not require any fictitious embellishments; it will he sufficient to describe the actual facts of the case without suppression or diminution. Farewell. To Fuscus
But it did more. A piece of the barrel struck the chief on the head, and he fell from his horse as if he had been shot. This catastrophe brought the hunt to a speedy close. The Indians assembled round their fallen chief with faces graver, if possible, than usual.
The catastrophe was hastened by the fatal pouring of the new wine of the later Renaissance into the old, now worn-out bottles of Mediaevalism, thereby paganising Rome and corrupting the College of Cardinals to so large an extent, that the election to the papacy of a Rodrigo Borgia was made possible.
The chances were a thousand to one that the picture-frame maker would get safely away with his goods; and he did. But it seemed odd to an absurdly sensitive, non-Teutonic mind it seemed somehow to lack justice that the picture-framer, after having been ruined, must risk his life in order to snatch from the catastrophe the debris of his career.
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