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Yet its fateful significance, both for New Zealand and for the individual travellers, could hardly be even guessed at the time by the two men themselves. To the one it was to bring life; to the other, troubles almost worse than death.
Every foot of that road was rich in memories to Ishmael. Over it he had ridden, in Mr. Middleton's carriage, on that fateful day of his first meeting with Claudia. Over it he had traveled, weary and footsore, through the snow, to sell his precious book to buy tea for Hannah. And over it he had again flashed in Mr. Middleton's sleigh, happy in the possession of his recovered treasure.
We knew just before this fateful day that at last we had undertaken an operation which was to result in loss, and a heavy one, but we never dreamed it was to be our Waterloo nor would it have been except for the acute stringency in the money market, the result of that Venezuelan message. Our commitments for the end of December and first week of January were unusually heavy.
For his going put off the necessity of knowing her own mind, excused her from making out exactly how she regarded him, thus relegating the day of fateful decision to a dim distance. Henrietta accused him of being a sieve. Damaris grew heated in strenuous denial. That was a calumny which she didn't and wouldn't credit.
He failed only because Lovin Child refused to be ignored, but insisted upon occupying the immediate foreground and in helping much as he had helped Marie pack her suit case one fateful afternoon not so long before. When Lovin Child was not permitted to dabble in the pan of soapy water, he revenged himself by bringing Cash's mitten and throwing that in, and crying "Ee?
"Quick!" cried the hunchback to Louise, "the road to liberty is open." Taking Louise by the hand, he ran with her up the steps out of the cellar.... But Henriette did not meet not until one fateful hour the itinerant grinder and her loved sister whom he protected. They were in many of the scenes of the later Revolution.
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Smith well knew what a leverage would be used against his company. He was still brooding over the fateful item when Mr. Wintermuth sent for him. "Have you met your new chief yet?" asked the President, in a friendly manner. "Yes," said the other, shortly. He held out the paper. "Have you seen this yet?" he inquired, in turn. "The Journal of Commerce? No. Is there anything especial in it?"
They were all of the same opinion as Landy; and agreed that no one but Hen could ever have written those fateful words. "I never would have believed he could ever be such a silly gump!" was what Lil Artha remarked, after surveying the crooked writing, which, of course, he knew only too well.
How much of the horror of the thing was revealed to his subconscious intelligence, who can say? He had climbed the boulder, and he now sat down with his knees drawn up, and his hands clasped round them. Whenever he came round to this side of the island, something happened of a fateful or sinister nature.
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