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It was a singular coincidence that the news of the diffusion of my opera through the German theatres should synchronise with my resolve to compose a work in the conception of which I had been so decidedly influenced by the necessity of being absolutely indifferent to our own theatres; yet this unexpected turn of events in no wise affected my treatment of my design.
Just figure the chances against such a meeting as this. Would it not run into millions your first visit to Warsaw; nobody expecting you; nobody knowing your name in the city and here is the girl waiting under your window before you have changed your clothes. Oh, no, I will have nothing to do with coincidence.
You have only to look about you to see that ... our poverty is not recent; it always has been so within my memory only growing a little worse every year. I believe our misfortunes began during the Vendée.... But that is of no interest ... except that through coincidence, of course every time a new misfortune comes upon our family, misfortune also falls on France."
I said; for the world is a small place: it was just possible I might have known him, and the little coincidence would have been curious. "Oh no," said the woman. "But I have often wondered why he changed his mind. He seemed so sure about sending the order. It was not the price that made him hesitate; but he wished his lady mother to make out the list herself."
La Torre made a proces verbal of their interview, while Brederode stormed like a madman, and abused the Duchess for a capricious and unreasonable tyrant. He ended by imprisoning La Torre for a day or two, and seizing his papers. By a singular coincidence, these events took place on the 13th, 24th, and 15th of March, the very days of the great Antwerp tumult.
Nor let us forget Pyrrhic victory, Parthian dart, and Homeric laughter; quos deus vult and nil de mortuis; Sturm und Drang; masterly inactivity, unctuous rectitude, mute inglorious Miltons, and damned good-natured friends; the sword of Damocles, the thin edge of the wedge, the long arm of coincidence, and the soul of goodness in things evil; Hobson's choice, Frankenstein's monster, Macaulay's schoolboy, Lord Burleigh's nod, Sir Boyle Roche's bird, Mahomed's coffin, and Davy Jones's locker.
Meanwhile on the 8th of January appeared the decree which called out for active duty thirty thousand men of the National Guard of Paris on the very day when by a singular and fatal coincidence the King of Naples signed a treaty of alliance with Great Britain.
At that moment, by an odd coincidence, there was a piteous howling heard, followed directly after by a shot and then by another. "Major's shot your dog, Mr Mark," said the boatswain, with a comical look at the captain's son, as they hurried on. "Bruff wouldn't have howled before he was hurt," said Mark excitedly. "They've shot some wild beast. Why didn't we keep up with them?"
Mars now appeared too slow at the apses instead of too quick, so obviously some intermediate ellipse must be sought between the trial ellipse and the circle on the same axis. At this point the "long arm of coincidence" came into play.
He believed that the youths had come down bent on sport, and that they would take far more interest in the news he had to give them, that a wild boar had recently been seen in the forest aisles of the Royal Park, and that the huntsmen would be ready to sally forth to slay it at a single word from the Prince. Edward's eyes lighted at this. It seemed to him a fortunate coincidence.
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