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"To those who, like us, have passed the meridian of life, and are going rapidly down-hill, the surroundings become ever duller and more drear; for us there are no more great and agreeable surprises; the farther they advance, the more lonely and desolate it appears; life has no more to offer, and they are glad at last to reach the valley and lie down in quiet graves.
The following, gathered from his notes is a typical example of such surprises as the aeronaut with due instrumental equipment may not unfrequently meet with.
Perhaps it was a little sister that died young, whom I never had heard of. And perhaps not. In a life such as mine, new surprises are always possible. Strange to say, in spite of everything, my sleep refreshed me. I woke up in the morning strong and vigorous thank goodness, I have physically a magnificent constitution and packed my box, with Jane's help, for my Torquay expedition.
"It seems, somehow, unnatural in a ... " she hesitated, then finished a little lamely, "a man like you." "Oh no, not at all," he hastened to assure her. "It's the most fascinating work in the world. It's full of novelty and surprises for one thing." She shuddered a little. "But the misery and want and starvation. The ... the... utter hopelessness of it all." "But it isn't hopeless at all.
"It looks like we had enough to stay a month, doesn't it?" he laughed. "There's blankets there, of course for table cloths and to make us comfortable and the lunch, and a pillow or two and some little surprises. The rest is just some stores that I'm going to take this opportunity to put across the river to my next camp. Now, Miss Neilson if you'll take the seat in the bow.
Pinckney, dressing with his window open, could see the park with the rooks wheeling and cawing over the trees, whilst the warm wind brought into the room all sorts of winter scents on the very breath of summer. This rainy land where the snow rarely comes has all sorts of surprises of climate and character. Nothing is truly logical in Ireland, not even winter.
or lashes with a noble severity and fearless independence the vices of the monks and the priestcraft of the established religion, he is always elegant, amusing, and, what pleases and surprises most in a writer of so unpolished an age, strikingly delicate and chastised. I prefer him infinitely to Chaucer.
He rid himself of his palette, and came back towards them, his arms sawing the air, as it were; and this artist, who had grown old amidst success, who was assured of ranking in the French School, cried to them: 'It surprises you, eh? but there are days when I ask myself whether I shall be able to draw a nose correctly.
On land the surprises were even more mortifying; and it is no exaggeration to say that, a year before it occurred, such an event as the surrender of Burgoyne's army to an imperfectly organised and trained body of provincials would have seemed impossible. The army which Frederick the Great bequeathed to Prussia was universally regarded as the model of efficiency.
Next day Aladdin invited the Sultan to see the palace. On entering the hall with the four-and-twenty windows, with their rubies, diamonds, and emeralds, he cried: "It is a world's wonder! There is only one thing that surprises me. Was it by accident that one window was left unfinished?" "No, sir, by design," returned Aladdin. "I wished your Majesty to have the glory of finishing this palace."
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