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Thus they are almost always beside themselves under the influence of haughtiness and waywardness; nor can there be created anything more utterly insupportable than a fortune-favored fool. There are to be seen those who previously behaved with propriety who are changed by station, power, or prosperity, and who spurn their old friendships and lavish indulgence on the new.
Scorn not the fortune-favored, that to him The light-won victory by the gods is given, Or that, as Paris, from the strife severe, The Venus draws her darling Whom the heaven So prospers, love so watches, I revere! And not the man upon whose eyes, with dim And baleful night, sits fate.
She forgot to look at the garment the children examined so troubledly. Suddenly, Miss Theodosia Baxter traveler, fortune-favored one found herself as anxious for the success of Stefana's stout little project as the two young people within her field of view, but, suddenly and unaccountably, from a new motive.
Unasked they come delighted to delude The expectation of our baffled pride; No law can call their free steps to our side. Before the fortune-favored son of earth, Apollo walks and, with his jocund mirth, The heart-enthralling smiler of the skies For him gray Neptune smooths the pliant wave Harmless the waters for the ship that bore The Caesar and his fortunes to the shore!
Over and over again as she watched, these two perfect partners came circling through her vision, solemnly graceful or rhythmically hoydenish two fortune-favored youngsters born into exactly the same sphere, trained to do exactly the same things in exactly the same way, so that even now, with twelve years' difference in age between them, every conscious vibration of their beings seemed to be tuned instinctively to the same key.
He was now stating the case, which he promised to prove by competent witnesses how the prisoner at the bar had long pursued his beautiful but hapless victim how he had been united to her by a private marriage that he had corresponded with her from Europe that upon his return they had frequently met that the prisoner, with the treachery that would soon be proved to be a part of his nature, had grown weary of his wife, and transferred his attentions to another and more fortune-favored lady and finally, that upon the evening of the murder he had decoyed the unhappy young lady to the fatal spot, and then and there effected his purpose.
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