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Out of a hundred happenings that are generally attributed to luck, if we could find the genesis of each one and trace its evolution or unfolding, we should probably not find more than one that could be associated with the things that happen by chance.
"I trace the commencement of it all to the time when you were visiting here last November not that I mean you were in any way to blame " Serena interrupted with spirit: "No, pray do not connect anything which occurred then with me, Rhoda. I think it would be most misplaced.
It has all been, so to say, a continuous blossoming of human vanity, a passionate desire to set one's name on an imperishable wall, and, after being master of the world, to leave behind one an indestructible trace, a tangible proof of one's passing glory, an eternal edifice of bronze and marble fit to attest that glory until the end of time.
The golden curls, among which a young and queenly mother had once loved to pass her slender perfumed fingers, now hung bedraggled, greasy, and lank round the little face, from the lines of which every trace of dignity and of simplicity had long since been erased.
Our first effort must therefore be to trace the great line of development through a few of its most characteristic stages from the simplest living beings up to man. This will be our work in the three succeeding lectures. And to these I must ask you to bring a large store of patience. Anatomical details are at best dry and uninteresting.
We must accept the position in which Miss Silvester has placed us. I shall give up all further effort to trace her from this moment." "Surely that will be a dreadful disappointment to Blanche, Sir Patrick?" "I don't deny it. We must face that result." "If you are sure there is nothing else to be done, I suppose we must." "I am not sure of anything of the sort, Master Arnold!
Yet, in all those weeks I never heard one word or hint of that devotion expressed or implied, not one trace of appreciation, not one shadow of sentiment. If I ventured to speak of the vast beauty of the woods, there was no response from my shy companions; one appeared to vie with another in concealing all feeling under a careless mask and a bantering manner.
It pleased her to be assisting at the dedication of a fresh page of national history a page yet unwritten, but on which she hoped that her own name would be inscribed sooner or later by those who should seek to trace the complete causes of her husband's usefulness and genius.
Aldrich was English," said Win wonderingly. "I thought she'd always lived in Boston." "I knew that she was a Canadian," replied his mother, "but she was educated in the United States and married an American. To trace her ancestry never occurred to me. She is so thoroughly and completely American that one would never think of her forefathers as being anything else.
Greenleaf overlooked nothing. The lot had been cleared of last winter's leaves, and the search was comparatively simple, but, if he saw even so much as a small stick on either side of him, he turned it over. They were soon at the fence, about twenty yards from the sleeping porch. "There's not a trace not a trace of anything, chief," said Bristow, leaning one elbow on the top board of the fence.
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