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Mephistopheles asserts that everything that exists deserves to be destroyed, annihilated, but not that everything will be destroyed or annihilated; and we assert that everything that exists deserves to be exalted and eternalized, even though no such fate is in store for it. The moral attitude is the reverse of this.
My illness was not my only sorrow; I had others which, although of a different nature, were not less serious. It was written in the book of fate that I should return to Venice a simple ensign as when I left: the general did not keep his word, and the bastard son of a nobleman was promoted to the lieutenancy instead of myself.
I cannot sleep in peace, for when I look at your window the light is always burning." "I will answer for it, Grandmother, that there shall be no fire, and if I myself were to be burnt...." "Touch wood! Do not tempt fate. Remember the saying that 'my tongue is my enemy." Suddenly Raisky sprang from the divan and ran to the window.
He saw our evident struggle, and said he would be satisfied with a promise that when our fate would be decided one way or the other, we would write to him; a promise which I redeemed the day after I reached Paris.
"Ah, Henri," said Agatha, "you are prejudiced. I do not mean as to Marie's love, but as to my award. I might, perhaps, not pain her so much by advising her to marry you at once, as I fear I shall pain you by telling her, that in her place, I should not do so." They both sat in breathless silence to hear their fate from Agatha's lips.
On rushed the maddened beasts towards the brink of the precipice! another moment, and they would have dashed down into certain destruction! Ishmael saw and hurled himself furiously forward between the rushing horses and the edge of the precipice, seizing the reins as the horses dashed up to him, and threw all his strength into the effort to turn them aside from their fate.
But when you told me that the end of Fate and Friendship was not as good as I could make it do you remember, that afternoon in the office? and how reluctant you were to tell me, how afraid you were to tell me? your throat went dry, and you stroked your forehead as you always do when you are nervous There! you are doing it now, foolish boy!
I told her the last message I received, and asked her to go with me if it should be true. She said, 'No, Isobel; I don't know whether this message is a dream, or whether God has opened a way of escape for you if so, may He be thanked; but you must go alone one might escape where two could not. As for me, I shall wait here for whatever fate God may send me.
The spread of these and other similar ideas seemed to him a question of the future of England; and he had already begun to throw himself into the unequal struggle with a martyr's tenacity, and with some prescience of the martyr's fate. Even Bennett!
The time when she might still have made a figure in the world had gone by, however, and she knew it, and as any desire for change which she had formerly felt had sprung from the wish to be seen, rather than from the wish to see others, she was becoming resigned to her fate.
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