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All this philosophy aside, Cissie's appearance just in the nick of his inspiration, her surprising proposal of marriage, and his refusal, had accomplished one thing: it had committed Peter to the program he had outlined to the girl. Indeed, there seemed something fatalistic in such a concatenation of events.
Since, again, the Italians were the first modern people of Europe who gave themselves boldly to speculations on freedom and necessity, and since they did so under violent and lawless political circumstances, in which evil seemed often to win a splendid and lasting victory, their belief in God began to waver, and their view of the government of the world became fatalistic.
So she is fatalistic, and an argument between us ends in her submitting, as if she must submit to me, because I'm overbearing, instead of accepting the fact. 'She feels your influence. It's an "unseasonable time." I argue with her: I don't get hold of her mind a bit; but at last she says, "very well." She has your head. And you have her heart, Lydiard could have rejoined.
Behind the figures, he calculated that, in all probability, Rhoda would visit her sister this night. "I can't stop that," he said: and hearing a clock strike, "nor that" a knock sounded on the door; "nor that." The reflection inspired him with fatalistic views. Sedgett appeared, and was welcome.
That fatalistic reliance upon an outside Power, which assumed for him the radiant guise of first love, and for Susan the stark certainties of Presbyterianism, dominated him as completely as if he were the predestined vehicle of its expression. Ardent, yet passive, Virginia leaned above him on the dim terrace.
On the contrary, they appeared to themselves in their amiable credulity to be the friends and guardians of everything admirable in human life; but their good intentions did not prevent them from actively or passively opposing positive intellectual and moral achievement, directed either towards social or individual ends. The effect of their whole state of mind was negative and fatalistic.
She felt as though she were surveying from a great distance the details of the prize she had coveted, but the possession of which was denied her. This this was the wealth her husband had bestowed upon her, she told herself bitterly, and some greater power, some fatalistic power, purposed to snatch it from her before it reached her hands. She rode straight for the rising land of the foothills.
The charge of complicity would fall to the ground before the old man's very ingenuousness! And then Jimmie Dale shrugged his shoulders, a sort of whimsical fatalistic philosophy upon him, and, as he tore the envelope open, he sat down in the lounging chair close to the table. Another "call to arms"! An appeal for some one else never for herself! He shook his head.
He tossed up his hand with one of his fatalistic Latin gestures, drawing the attention of the passers-by to the man and woman talking so earnestly. For this reason, and because she was losing her self-command, she hastened to take leave of him. Arrived at home, it gave her no comfort to find Charles Conquest the most spick and span of middle-aged New-Yorkers waiting in the drawing-room.
Most of the men became fatalists, with odd superstitions in the place of faith. "It's no good worrying," they said. "If your name is written on a German shell you can't escape it, and if it isn't written, nothing can touch you." Officers as well as men had this fatalistic belief and superstitions which amused them and helped them. "Have the Huns found you out yet?"
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