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Petersburg was once a swamp, and so rotten is the ground that it would be quite possible for a monolith to sink out of sight and never more be heard of. To provide against such contingencies a forest of piles was driven into the earth at the cost of £200,000 as the foundation of St. Isaac, and yet the cathedral sinks. Like causes render the roads of St.

Hector made himself especially attractive, and Lady Ada Fitzgerald decided he was charming. The way paved for possible contingencies, he escaped from this crowd of women, and once more began his search for Theodora. She would certainly return to Josiah some time. To go straight to him would be the best plan.

The two men plunged into the subject, and for a good half-hour discussed it in all its bearings, making endless calculations and contemplating all contingencies. At last M. Rambert threw down his pen and looked up. "I'm accustomed to the American method of hustle, Barbey.

"Why, then, I think we should guard against such contingencies. You know what is in my mind; we have spoken of it before, and not once only. I want you to marry, and you know whom." "Marriage is a serious affair!" said Endymion, with a distressed look. "The most serious. It is the principal event for good or for evil in all lives.

To my notion, nothing can be farther removed from Elysium than a modern drawing-room full of guests." "And leaving out the guests?" "They say imagination can make a paradise of a desert, given the necessary contingencies." "A solitude of two who love? Dr. Kemp, methinks you are a romantic." "You supplied the romance, Miss Gwynne. My knowledge is of the hard, matter-of-fact sort."

If the actual thing itself does occur, then the manner of it sets up so many unforeseen contingencies that only the subtlest mind, and the sanest and the least hidebound by opinion, can hope to read the signs fast enough to understand them as they happen.

From an inner pocket, after removing a number of pins, he produced six one hundred dollar notes, saying, by way of explanation, "For greater security I converted my funds into bills of large denomination. One I reserve for contingencies; the other five are for you." "Your money is here in the safe," said Ragem, taking the five notes, and turning toward the safe as if to unlock it.

The comet will leave New York at 10 P.M. on the 20th inst., and therefore it will be desirable that the passengers be on board by eight at the latest, to avoid confusion in getting under way. It is not known whether passports will be necessary or not, but it is deemed best that passengers provide them, and so guard against all contingencies. No dogs will be allowed on board.

He had alluded to his own dealings in them, and to what he would do and would not do under certain contingencies; thus shadowing out, dimly luminous and immense, what he could do, if his sagacity prompted the adventure. The farmer had listened through the buzzing of his uncertain grief, only sighing for answer.