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Vibhatsu, therefore, who is still to live undiscovered hath appeared before us. And if Vibhatsu hath come before the term of exile is at end, the Pandavas shall have to pass another twelve years in the woods. When an object of desire may or may not be attained, a doubt necessarily attaches to one of the alternatives, and what is decided in one way often ends differently.
"I have had a weeping fit," she thought, and resolved to remember it tenderly, as being associated with her friend's recovery, and a singular masterful power absolutely to look on the Austrians marching up the streets of Milan, and not to feel the surging hatred, or the nerveless despair, which she had supposed must be her alternatives.
Has he only one eye, by any chance?" The reasoner gazed petrified at his counsellor. "God, but I've just described yoursel', sir!" he cried in an unhappy voice. "You're determined to hang one of us, Bisset." For a moment Bisset seemed to find conversation difficult. Then he said miserably: "So it's no good, and all the alternatives just fa' to pieces."
There are two obvious alternatives, neither of which promises an easy way out of the quandary in which the world's peace is placed by their presence: Submission to their dominion, or Elimination of these two Powers.
Hearing those words, my knowledge of the circumstances helped me; I realized what his situation really was. "Compose yourself," I said, "I understand you at last." He had suddenly become distrustful. "Prove it," he muttered, with a furtive look at me. "I want to be satisfied that you understand my position." "This is your position," I told him. "You are placed between two deplorable alternatives.
This was so called, because the opener of the debate proposed two alternatives to his interlocutor, of which the latter could choose for support either that he preferred, the proposer taking the other contrary proposition: the contestants often left the decision in an envoi to one or more arbitrators by common consent.
The very closeness of body to body, emphasizing flexor rather than extensor arm muscles, imparts to it a peculiar tone, gives it a vast variety of possible activities, developing many alternatives at every stage, and tempts to many undiscovered forms of permanent mayhem.
Against every admonition of reason, mere personal sympathy seems to have carried a decision in favor of the first of these alternatives. "You see how it is," said the chief counselor, Gerrit Smith; "our dear old friend has made up his mind to this course and cannot be turned from it. We cannot give him up to die alone; we must support him."
For, to take one instance, he told the Olynthians, when he was five miles from the city, that there were only two alternatives either they must cease to live in Olynthus, or he to live in Macedonia: but during the whole time before that, whenever any one accused him of any such sentiments, he was indignant and sent envoys to answer the charge.
His countenance was averted, but the ferver of his adjuration filled her with a vague sense of painful foreboding. "Is it friendly to desire the preservation of a life, whose probable goal seems the gallows, or perpetual imprisonment? Poor girl! In the choice of awful alternatives, death would come here as an angel of mercy."
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