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Why am I not organized for enjoyment as I am for suffering! The bit you sent me about Aurore who is reading Homer, did me good. That is what I miss: a little girl like that! But one does not arrange one's own destiny, one submits to it. Everything that was around me has disappeared, and now I find I am in a desert. In short, the element of distraction is absolutely lacking to me.
Everybody but me wants to know what kind of a to-morrow God Almighty has made for him. I make my own to-morrows! I don't ask to have my destiny made up for me like a t-t-tailor coat. I make my own destiny. If things d-d-don't come my way, I just pull them! People talk about 'following Providence! I follow Providence as an Irishman follows his wheel-barrow. I shove it! See?
Hence we find in the records of all ancient peoples a unanimous recognition of lightning and thunder on the one hand, and volcanic phenomena on the other, as means to which the Deity resorts for intervening in human destiny. A well-known example is the account in the Bible of the meeting of Moses with God on Mount Sinai.
"Nevertheless he died of indigestion, in spite of his grace," said D'Artagnan. "What can you expect?" replied Aramis, in a tone of resignation. "Every man that's born must fulfil his destiny." "If it be not an indelicate question," resumed D'Artagnan, "have you grown rich?" "Oh, Heaven! no.
If the sagacity of others detect your occupations, however strenuously you may labour for concealment, your doom is ratified, as well as that of the wretch whose evil destiny led him to pursue you. Yet if your fidelity fail not, great will be your recompence. For all your toils and self-devotion, ample will be the retribution.
As I stood there, looking at the window that interested me most, the curtains were drawn, the window was opened, and a form appeared in a white robe. I had never seen the Emperor before in a night-gown, but I should have known him among a thousand. The Man of Destiny had on a white cotton night-cap, with a peaked top and no tassel.
It was with the protective mien of one who sought to shield him from an adverse destiny that she declined his suit. This had all happened seven years ago. In the mean time he had adjusted his disappointment to the new life of the West. To say that he had fallen in love with the situation would be to misrepresent him.
If she will but deign to live afterward, she shall be my heir. And for myself, I know how to find a ready quietus! My mind since this last affair is better reconciled to its destiny, and even less disturbed than before: for previous to this, there seemed to be some bare possibility of a generous release, on my part, and a more generous forgetfulness of injuries on theirs. But now, all is over!
For the first time in years he looked up to heaven and prayed fervently. From the unknown destiny ahead he turned to look for the fate which pursued. Walking with Coronado to the brink of the colossal terrace, and sheltering himself from the view of the rest of the party, he scanned the trail with his glass.
My daughter loves you; she, as well as my wife and her nurse, sees you every time that we dine together, and she listens to you with pleasure." "Does she know that you are thinking of giving her to me as my wife?" "She knows that I ardently wish you to become a true believer, so as to enable me to link her destiny to yours."
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