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'More years than I have any delight to reckon, have past since you and I saw one another; of this, however, there is no reason for making any reprehensory complaint Sic fata ferunt . But methinks there might pass some small interchange of regard between us. If you say, that I ought to have written, I now write; and I write to tell you, that I have much kindness for you and Mrs.

Audoen's Church where I have read the epitaph, telling the age and titles of the departed dust. Neither painted escutcheon, nor marble slab, have served to rescue from oblivion the story of the dead, whose very name will ere long moulder from their tracery, 'Et sunt sua fata sepulchris.

You are thinking that now you have your fata morgana nothing else. You are already preparing a grave for her in your mind!" Lawrence took her head in his hands. "Never," he shot out the word. "Never you are mine; I have come all these ocean miles to find you. I have come for an accounting with the vision that troubles man." Her face drew nearer. "I am Venice, you said. I am set in the mare morto.

It was fern moss! The largest of its species I had ever found in tropic jungles had not been more than two inches high, and this was twenty feet! The scientific fire I had experienced in the tunnel returned uncontrollable. I parted the fronds, gazed out My outlook commanded a vista of miles and that vista! A Fata Morgana of plantdom! A land of flowered sorcery!

I repeat to you once more, you will do all that I have just said. LAUR. Sextus, mayhap, would pray the Gods to alter fate, to give him a better heart. ANT. He would receive the answer: Desine fata Deum flecti sperare precando. He cannot cause divine foreknowledge to lie. But what then will Sextus say? Will he not break forth into complaints against the Gods? Will he not say? What?

So one night, when the fair maiden was fast asleep, he tied one of her tresses to his arm, that she might not escape; then he called a chamberlain, and bidding him light the candles, he saw the flower of beauty, the miracle of women, the looking-glass and painted egg of Venus, the fair bait of Love he saw a little doll, a beautiful dove, a Fata Morgana, a banner he saw a golden trinket, a hunter, a falcon's eye, a moon in her fifteenth day, a pigeon's bill, a morsel for a king, a jewel he saw, in short, a sight to amaze one.

Fata Morgana, the beautiful aërial phenomenon of the desert, showed itself with hanging gardens and swaying forests, and the wonderful cloud phenomenon, called here the "Lokeman driving his flock," was seen likewise.

The bad man, whose volitions conflict with these schemes, is always baulked of his expectations, and brought at last against his will to see things carried by an overruling force, with aggravated pain and humiliation to himself: while the good man, who resigns himself to them from the first, always escapes with less pain, and often without any at all. Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt.

Adister described the Cambrian ladies as a kind of daughters of the Fata Morgana, only half human, and deceptive down to treachery, unless you had them fast by their spinning fancy. They called it being romantic. It was the ante-chamber of madness. Mad, was the word for them. You pleased them you knew not how, and just as little did you know how you displeased them.

This is the weather point of Upolu, and after leaving Lepa| the boat has a clear run of over sixty miles before the glorious trades to the lee end of the island that is, unless a stay is made at the populous towns of Falealilli, Sa|fata, Lafa|ga, and Falelatai, on the southern coast.